Σικανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A Proto-Indo-European tribe of uncertain, possibly Ancient Ligurian affiliation, the Sicani's language is the earliest recorded stratum in Sicily. More at Sicani. Also compare Σικελός (Sikelós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.kaː.nós/ → /si.kaˈnos/ → /si.kaˈnos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.kaː.nós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈnos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈnos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈnos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.kaˈnos/

Noun

Σῐκᾱνός • (Sikānós) m (genitive Σῐκᾱνοῦ); second declension

1. a Sican or Sicanian (one of the Sicani)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Thucydides to this entry?)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Σῐκᾱνός; τοῦ Σῐκᾱνοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Σῐκᾱνός ho Sikānós	τὼ Σῐκᾱνώ tṑ Sikānṓ	οἱ Σῐκᾱνοί hoi Sikānoí
Genitive	τοῦ Σῐκᾱνοῦ toû Sikānoû	τοῖν Σῐκᾱνοῖν toîn Sikānoîn	τῶν Σῐκᾱνῶν tôn Sikānôn
Dative	τῷ Σῐκᾱνῷ tôi Sikānôi	τοῖν Σῐκᾱνοῖν toîn Sikānoîn	τοῖς Σῐκᾱνοῖς toîs Sikānoîs
Accusative	τὸν Σῐκᾱνόν tòn Sikānón	τὼ Σῐκᾱνώ tṑ Sikānṓ	τοὺς Σῐκᾱνούς toùs Sikānoús
Vocative	Σῐκᾱνέ Sikāné	Σῐκᾱνώ Sikānṓ	Σῐκᾱνοί Sikānoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σῐκᾱνῐ́ᾱ (Sikāníā)
• Σῐκᾱνῐκός (Sikānikós)

Descendants

• Greek: Σικανός (Sikanós)
• Latin: Sicānus
  • English: Sican
  • Italian: sicano
  • Sicilian: sicanu

References

• “Σικανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
• Aapologetico de la literatura española contra los opiniones"

Further reading

• Sicani on Wikipedia.Wikipedia