sicarius
See also: Sicarius
Latin
Etymology
sīca (“dagger”) + -ārius, from Proto-Albanian *tsikā[1][2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /siːˈkaː.ri.us/, [s̠iːˈkäːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siˈka.ri.us/, [siˈkäːrius]
Noun
sīcārius m (genitive sīcāriī or sīcārī); second declension
- assassin, contract killer, murderer
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sīcārius | sīcāriī |
| Genitive | sīcāriī sīcārī1 | sīcāriōrum |
| Dative | sīcāriō | sīcāriīs |
| Accusative | sīcārium | sīcāriōs |
| Ablative | sīcāriō | sīcāriīs |
| Vocative | sīcārie | sīcāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → Catalan: sicari
- → English: Sicarius
- → Esperanto: sikario
- → French: sicaire
- → Italian: sicario
- → Portuguese: sicário
- → Spanish: sicario
References
- Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian etymological dictionary, Brill, →ISBN, pages 477-478
- Havers, Wilhelm (1984) Die Sprache, A. Sexl., page 84
- “sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sicarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
- to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
- “sicarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sicarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin