Σικελία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Σῐ́κελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.ke.lí.aː/ → /si.ceˈli.a/ → /si.ceˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.ke.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /si.keˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /si.ceˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /si.ceˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.ceˈli.a/

Proper noun

Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ • (Sikelíā) f (genitive Σῐκελῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Sicily (an island and former kingdom in Europe)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Σῐκελῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ hē Sikelíā
Genitive	τῆς Σῐκελῐ́ᾱς tês Sikelíās
Dative	τῇ Σῐκελῐ́ᾳ têi Sikelíāi
Accusative	τὴν Σῐκελῐ́ᾱν tḕn Sikelíān
Vocative	Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ Sikelíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σῐκελῐώτης (Sikeliṓtēs)

Related terms

• Σῐκελῐκός (Sikelikós)

Descendants

• Greek: Σικελία (Sikelía)
• → Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة (ṣiqilliyya)
  • Maltese: Sqallija
  • → Azerbaijani: Siqilliyyə
  • → Ottoman Turkish: صقلیه (sıkılliye)
    • Turkish: Sıkılliye
  • → Persian: صقلیه (seqelliyye)
  • → Tajik: Сиқиллия (Siqilliya)
  • → Urdu: صقلیہ
  • → Uzbek: Siqilliya
• → Latin: Sicelia, Sicilia
  • Catalan: Sicília
  • French: Sicile
    • → Persian: سیسیل (sisil)
  • Italian: Sicilia
    • → Albanian: Sicila
    • → Japanese: シチリア
    • → Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا
      • Turkish: Sicilya
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: Cezilla
  • Portuguese: Sicília
  • Sicilian: Sicilia
  • Spanish: Sicilia
  • → Czech: Sicílie
  • → Dutch: Sicilie
  • → German: Sizilien
  • → Hungarian: Szicília
  • → Old English: Sicilia
    • Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
      • English: Sicily
  • → Old Norse: Sikiley
    • Icelandic: Sikiley
  • → Polish: Sycylia
  • → Russian: Сици́лия (Sicílija), Сици́лія (Sicílija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Kazakh: Сицилия (Sisiliä)
    • → Kyrgyz: Сицилия (Sitsiliya)
    • → Uzbek: Sitsiliya

References

• “Σικελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Σικελία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ceˈli.a/

Proper noun

Σικελία • (Sikelía) f

1. Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Declension

  Σικελία

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Σικελία •
genitive	Σικελίας •
accusative	Σικελία •
vocative	Σικελία •

Related terms

• Σικελή f (Sikelí, “Sicilian”)
• Σικελός m (Sikelós, “Sicilian”)
• σικελικός (sikelikós, “Sicilian”, adj)
• Σικελιώτης m (Sikeliótis, “male Sicilian”)
• Σικελιώτισσα f (Sikeliótissa, “female Sicilian”)
• σικελιώτικος (sikeliótikos, “Sicilian”, adj)
• (colloquial) Σιτσιλιάνα f (Sitsiliána, “female Sicilian”)
• (colloquial) Σιτσιλιάνος m (Sitsiliános, “male Sicilian”)
• (colloquial) σιτσιάνικος (sitsiánikos, “Sicilian”, adj)

Further reading

• Σικελία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el