ancile
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editancile (plural ancilia or anciles)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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editItalian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin.
Noun
editancile m (plural ancili)
- the sacred shield of the Ancient Romans
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *amβikaidslis, from *amβi (“around”) + *kaidō (“to cut”) (whence ambi- and caedō respectively), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi and *kh₂eyd- respectively.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /anˈkiː.le/, [äŋˈkiːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈt͡ʃi.le/, [än̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːle]
Noun
editancīle n (genitive ancīlis); third declension
- The sacred shield said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.
Declension
editThird-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 ancīliōrum.
References
edit- “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
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