licium
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; could be a loan from a non-Indo-European language [1].
Noun
līcium n (genitive līciī or līcī); second declension
- loop in the texture woven, through which the basic fabric is pulled
- thrum, leash
- thread
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | līcium | līcia |
| Genitive | līciī līcī1 | līciōrum |
| Dative | līciō | līciīs |
| Accusative | līcium | līcia |
| Ablative | līciō | līciīs |
| Vocative | līcium | līcia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
- bilīx
- trilīx
Descendants
- Aragonese: liza
- Aromanian: ljitsã
- Catalan: lliç
- French: lice, lisse
- Italian: liccio
- Occitan: liça, lissa
- Portuguese: liço, liça
- Romanian: iță
- Spanish: lizo
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “licium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “licium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- licium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette