Sicilia

Sicilia

See also: sicilià and Sicília

English

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicels”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈsɪljə/

Proper noun

Sicilia (uncountable)

1. a province of the Roman Empire (consisting of the island of Sicily)

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Galician

Proper noun

Sicilia

1. Sicily (an island and region of Italy)

Related terms

• siciliano

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈt͡ʃi.lja/
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia

Proper noun

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (an island and region of Italy)

   Synonym: (obsolete) Trinacria

Derived terms

• siciliano
• siculo

Further reading

• Sicilia on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• lisciai, sialici

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos), the name of the Sicel people.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈki.li.a/, [s̠ɪˈkɪlʲiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈt͡ʃi.li.a/, [siˈt͡ʃiːliä]

• Audio (Classical)

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Proper noun

Sicilia f sg (genitive Siciliae); first declension

1. Sicily

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Sicilia
Genitive	Siciliae
Dative	Siciliae
Accusative	Siciliam
Ablative	Siciliā
Vocative	Sicilia
Locative	Siciliae

Derived terms

• Siciliensis

Related terms

• Siculī
• Siculus
• Sīcelis

Descendants

• Catalan: Sicília
• French: Sicile
  • → Persian: سیسیل‎ (sisil)
• Italian: Sicilia
  • → Albanian: Sicila
  • → Japanese: シチリア
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا‎
    • Turkish: Sicilya
• Old Portuguese: Cezilla
• Portuguese: Sicília
• Sicilian: Sicilia
• Spanish: Sicilia
• → Czech: Sicílie
• → Dutch: Sicilie
• → German: Sizilien
• → Hungarian: Szicília
• → Old English: Sicilia
  • Middle English: Sicilie
    • English: Sicily
• → Old Norse: Sikiley
  • Icelandic: Sikiley
• → Polish: Sycylia
• → Russian: Сици́лия (Sicílija), Сици́лія (Sicílija)
  • → Kazakh: Сицилия (Sisiliä)
  • → Kyrgyz: Сицилия (Sitsiliya)
  • → Uzbek: Sitsiliya

References

• “Sicilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sicilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sicilia

1. Sicily (an island and region of Italy)

Related terms

• sicilianer
• siciliansk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sicilia

1. Sicily (an island and region of Italy)

Related terms

• sicilianar
• siciliansk

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Old English

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiˌki.li.ɑ/

Proper noun

Sicilia f

1. Sicily

Declension

Declension of Sicilia (indeclinable)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	Sicilia	—
accusative	Sicilia	—
genitive	Sicilia	—
dative	Sicilia	—

Related terms

• Sicilie
• Sicilisċ

Descendants

• Middle English: Sicilie
  • English: Sicily

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Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈʃi.lja/, /sɪˈɕi.lja/

Proper noun

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (an island and region of Italy)

Derived terms

• sicilianu

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /siˈθilja/ [siˈθi.lja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /siˈsilja/ [siˈsi.lja]
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Syllabification: Si‧ci‧lia

Proper noun

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (an island and region of Italy)

Related terms

• siciliano