sicario
See also: sicário
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sicario (plural sicarios)
- hitman, hired killer (especially when referring to Latin American drug cartels)
- 1992, Tina Rosenberg, Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America, page 34:
- The traffickers created a Frankenstein's monster that gradually slipped out of their control: the sicarios.
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Etymology edit
From Latin sīcārius (“murderer, assassin”), derived from sīca (“poniard, curved dagger”). By surface analysis, sica (“curved dagger”) + -ario (“-ary”).
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sicario m (plural sicari)
- hitman (hired killer)
- Synonyms: assassino, killer, accoltellatore
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Latin edit
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sīcāriō
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Etymology edit
From Latin sīcārius (“murderer, assassin”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sicario m (plural sicarios, feminine sicaria, feminine plural sicarias)
- hitman (hired killer)
Further reading edit
- “sicario”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014