Latin edit

Noun edit

cilicium n (genitive ciliciī or cilicī); second declension

  1. rug or garment made from goat hair

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cilicium cilicia
Genitive ciliciī
cilicī1
ciliciōrum
Dative ciliciō ciliciīs
Accusative cilicium cilicia
Ablative ciliciō ciliciīs
Vocative cilicium cilicia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Catalan: cilici
  • French: cilice
  • German: Cilicium
  • Italian: cilicio
  • Portuguese: cilício
  • Spanish: cilicio

References edit

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