siccus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsik.kus/, [ˈs̠ɪkːʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsik.kus/, [ˈsikːus]
Adjective
siccus (feminine sicca, neuter siccum, comparative siccior); first/second-declension adjective
- dry
- sober
- thirsty
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | siccus | sicca | siccum | siccī | siccae | sicca | |
| Genitive | siccī | siccae | siccī | siccōrum | siccārum | siccōrum | |
| Dative | siccō | siccō | siccīs | ||||
| Accusative | siccum | siccam | siccum | siccōs | siccās | sicca | |
| Ablative | siccō | siccā | siccō | siccīs | |||
| Vocative | sicce | sicca | siccum | siccī | siccae | sicca | |
Derived terms
- persiccus
- praesiccus
- semisiccus
- siccānus
- siccē
- siccificus
- siccitās
- siccō
- siccoculus
- siccum
Related terms
- assiccescō
- assiccō
- dēsiccō
- exsiccātiō
- exsiccātus
- exsiccescō
- exsiccō
- insiccābilis
- insiccātus
- perexsiccātus
- persiccātus
- praesiccō
- siccābilis
- siccāneus
- siccārius
- siccātiō
- siccātīvus
- siccātōrius
- siccescō
Descendants
Descendants
- Aromanian: sec
- Asturian: secu
- Catalan: sec
- Corsican: seccu, siccu
- French: sec
- → Dutch: sec
- Friulian: sec
- Galician: seco
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: seku
- Gallo-Italic:
- Romagnol: sèc (Ravenna), sècc (Santarcangelo)
- Italian: secco
- Kabuverdianu: seku
- Norman: sec
- Occitan: sec
- Papiamentu: seku
- Portuguese: seco
- → Proto-Brythonic: *sɨx
- Old Breton: sech
- Breton: sec'h
- Middle Cornish: sech
- Cornish: sygh
- Old Welsh: sich
- Middle Welsh: sych, sich
- Welsh: sych
- Middle Welsh: sych, sich
- Old Breton: sech
- Romanian: sec
- Romansch: setg, sitg
- Sardinian: siccu
- Sicilian: siccu
- Spanish: seco
- Venetian: seco
- Walloon: setch
References
- “siccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “siccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- siccus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- siccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette