Etymology
edit
From Middle English Sicilie, Sicilye, from Old English Sicilia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”).
Pronunciation
edit
Proper noun
edit
Sicily (plural Sicilies) (see usage notes below)
- The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily.
- (historical) Synonym of Kingdom of Sicily, a former kingdom controlling the island and some of southern Italy in the medieval and early modern period
- (historical) Synonym of Kingdom of Naples, a former kingdom controlling southern Italy and claiming sovereignty over the island in the early modern period
- (historical) Synonym of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a former kingdom controlling the island and most of southern Italy in the 19th century
Usage notes
edit
Meronyms
edit
Derived terms
edit
Related terms
edit
Translations
edit
island in the Mediterranean Sea
- Afrikaans: Sisilië
- Albanian: Siçilia f, Siçighja f
- Amharic: ሲኪልያ (sikilya)
- Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة f (ṣiqilliyya)
- Egyptian Arabic: سيسيليا f (sisilia)
- Hijazi Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة f (ṣigilliya, ṣiqilliya)
- Aragonese: Secilia f
- Armenian: Սիցիլիա (Sicʻilia)
- Asturian: Sicilia f
- Azerbaijani: Siciliya, Siqilliyyə
- Basque: Sizilia
- Bavarian: Sizilien n
- Belarusian: Сыцылія f (Sycylija)
- Bengali: সিসিলি (bn) (śiśili), সিকিল্লি (śikilli)
- Breton: Sikilia f
- Bulgarian: Сицилия f (Sicilija)
- Catalan: Sicília (ca) f
- Chechen: Сицили (Sicili)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 西西里 (zh) (Xixīlǐ)
- Chuvash: Сицили (Sitsili)
- Cornish: Sisili f
- Corsican: Sicilia f
- Czech: Sicílie (cs) f
- Danish: Sicilien
- Dutch: Sicilië (nl) n
- Esperanto: Sicilio
- Estonian: Sitsiilia
- Extremaduran: Sicília f
- Faroese: Sikiloy f, Sisilia f
- Finnish: Sisilia (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: Secila f
- French: Sicile (fr) f
- Middle French: Sycile f
- Friulian: Sicilie f
- Galician: Sicilia (gl) f
- Georgian: სიცილია (sicilia)
- German: Sizilien (de) n
- Alemannic German: Sizilie n
- Greek: Σικελία (el) f (Sikelía)
- Ancient: Σικελία f (Sikelía)
- Hausa: Sisiliya
- Hawaiian: Kikilia
- Hebrew: סִיצִילְיָה (he) f
- Hindi: सिसिली (sisilī)
- Hungarian: Szicília (hu)
- Icelandic: Sikiley f
- Ido: Sicilia (io)
- Indonesian: Sisilia
- Irish: An tSicil f
- Italian: Sicilia (it) f
- Japanese: シチリア (Shichiria), シチリア州 (Shichiria-shū) (region), シチリア島 (Shichiria-tō) (island), シシリー (Shishirī), シシリー島 (Shishirī-tō)
- Javanese: Sisilia
- Kazakh: Сицилия (Sisiliä)
- Korean: 시칠리아 (Sichillia)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: سیسیلیا f (sîsîlya)
- Northern Kurdish: Sîcîlya (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: Сицилия (ky) (Sitsiliya)
- Ladino: Sisilia f
- Latin: Sicilia (la) f
- Latvian: Sicīlija f
- Ligurian: Siçilia f
- Limburgish: Sicilië (li) n
- Lithuanian: Sicilija f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Sizilien n
- Luxembourgish: Sizilien n
- Macedonian: Сицилија f (Sicilija)
- Malayalam: സിസിലി (sisili)
- Maltese: Sqallija m
- Maori: Hihirī
- Marathi: सिसिली (sisilī), सिचिल्या (sicilyā)
- Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
- Mingrelian: სიცილია (sicilia)
- Neapolitan: Sicilia f
- Norman: Sicile f
- North Frisian: Siziilien n
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Sicilia f
- Nynorsk: Sicilia f
- Occitan: Sicília f
- Old English: Sicilia f
- Old Norse: Sikiley f, Sikelö
- Ossetian: Сицили (Sicili)
- Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا, صقلیه
- Persian: سیسیل (fa) (sisil), صقلیه (seqelliyye)
- Picard: Sicile f
- Piedmontese: Sicilia f
- Polish: Sycylia (pl) f
- Portuguese: Sicília (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸਿਚੀਲੀਆ (sicīlīā)
- Romanian: Sicilia f
- Russian: Сици́лия (ru) f (Sicílija)
- Sardinian: Sitzìlia f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Сѝцӣлија f
- Roman: Sìcīlija (sh) f
- Sicilian: Sicilia f
- Silesian: Sycylijo n
- Slovak: Sicília f
- Slovene: Sicílija (sl) f
- Somali: Sasiiliya
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: Siciliska f
- Upper Sorbian: Sicilska f
- Spanish: Sicilia (es) f
- Swahili: Sisilia
- Swedish: Sicilien (sv) n
- Tagalog: Sisily
- Tamil: சிசிலி (cicili)
- Tarantino: Sicilie f
- Telugu: సిసిలీ (sisilī)
- Thai: ซิซิลี (sí-sí-lee)
- Tibetan: སི་ཅི་ལི་ཡ། (si ci li ya)
- Turkish: Sicilya (tr)
- Ukrainian: Сици́лія f (Sycýlija)
- Urdu: صقلیہ
- Venetian: Siciłia f
- Volapük: Sikileän (vo)
- Welsh: Sisili f
- West Flemish: Sicilië n
- West Frisian: Sisylje n
- Yakut: Сициилийэ (Sitsiiliye), Сицилия (Sitsiliya)
- Yiddish: סיציליע f (sitsilye)
|
See also
edit
- (administrative regions of Italy) regions of Italy; Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige, Tuscany, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto (Category: en:Administrative regions of Italy)