ancile

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ancile (plural ancilia or anciles)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ancile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Celina, NELIAC, alcine, inlace

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

ancile m (plural ancili)

1. the sacred shield of the Ancient Romans

Anagrams

• Celani, Celina, acline, alcine, canile, cilena, lincea

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *amβikaidslis, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-. Compare ambi-, caedō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /anˈkiː.le/, [äŋˈkiːɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈt͡ʃi.le/, [än̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːle]

Noun

ancīle n (genitive ancīlis); third declension

1. The sacred shield said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ancīle	ancīlia
Genitive	ancīlis	ancīlium
Dative	ancīlī	ancīlibus
Accusative	ancīle	ancīlia
Ablative	ancīlī	ancīlibus
Vocative	ancīle	ancīlia

The genitive plural can be also ancīliorum.

References

• “ancile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ancile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ancile 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)
• “ancile”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ancile”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin