Sicily

English

Etymology

From Middle English Sicilie, Sicilye, from Old English Sicilia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsɪli/, /ˈsɪsəli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: cicely

Proper noun

Sicily (plural Sicilies) (see usage notes below)

2. 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.
3. (historical) Synonym of Kingdom of Sicily, a former kingdom controlling the island and some of southern Italy in the medieval and early modern period
4. (historical) Synonym of Kingdom of Naples, a former kingdom controlling southern Italy and claiming sovereignty over the island in the early modern period
5. (historical) Synonym of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a former kingdom controlling the island and most of southern Italy in the 19th century

Usage notes

• English proper nouns ending in y usually add an s to form their plural (as in Germanys and Marys). Sicily is an exception to this pattern, as in Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. For more, see English plurals § Plurals of nouns in -y on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Meronyms

largest island in the Mediterranean Sea

• Agrigento
• Caltanissetta
• Catania
• Enna
• Messina
• Palermo
• Ragusa
• Syracuse
• Trapani

 

Derived terms

• Emirate of Sicily
• Sicilian
• Strait of Sicily

Related terms

• Sicel
• Siceliot
• Sicilian
• Sicilian American
• Sicilian Italian
• Siculi
• Siculian
• Siculish
• Sikeliot

 

Translations

island in the Mediterranean Sea

• Afrikaans: Sisilië
• Albanian: Siçilia f, Siçighja f
• Amharic: ሲኪልያ (sikilya)
• Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة f (ṣiqilliyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: سيسيليا f (sisilia)

  Hijazi Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة f (ṣigilliya, ṣiqilliya)

• Aragonese: Secilia f
• Armenian: Սիցիլիա (Sicʻilia)
• Asturian: Sicilia f
• Azerbaijani: Siciliya, Siqilliyyə
• Basque: Sizilia
• Bavarian: Sizilien n
• Belarusian: Сыцылія f (Sycylija)
• Bengali: সিসিলি (bn) (śiśili), সিকিল্লি (śikilli)
• Breton: Sikilia f
• Bulgarian: Сицѝлия f (Sicìlija)
• Catalan: Sicília (ca) f
• Chechen: Сицили (Sicili)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西西里 (zh) (Xixīlǐ)

• Chuvash: Сицили (Sitsili)
• Cornish: Sisili f
• Corsican: Sicilia f
• Czech: Sicílie (cs) f
• Danish: Sicilien
• Dutch: Sicilië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sicilio
• Estonian: Sitsiilia
• Extremaduran: Sicília f
• Faroese: Sikiloy f, Sisilia f
• Finnish: Sisilia (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Secila f
• French: Sicile (fr) f

  Middle French: Sycile f

• Friulian: Sicilie f
• Galician: Sicilia (gl) f
• Georgian: სიცილია (sicilia)
• German: Sizilien (de) n

  Alemannic German: Sizilie n

• Greek: Σικελία (el) f (Sikelía)

  Ancient: Σικελία f (Sikelía)

• Hausa: Sisiliya
• Hawaiian: Kikilia
• Hebrew: סִיצִילְיָה (he) f
• Hindi: सिसिली (sisilī)
• Hungarian: Szicília (hu)
• Icelandic: Sikiley f
• Ido: Sicilia (io)
• Indonesian: Sisilia
• Irish: An tSicil f
• Italian: Sicilia (it) f
• Japanese: シチリア (Shichiria), シチリア州 (Shichiria-shū) (region), シチリア島 (Shichiria-tō) (island), シシリー (Shishirī), シシリー島 (Shishirī-tō)
• Javanese: Sisilia
• Kazakh: Сицилия (Sisiliä)
• Korean: 시칠리아 (Sichillia)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سیسیلیا f (sîsîlya)

  Northern Kurdish: Sîcîlya (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: Сицилия (ky) (Sitsiliya)
• Ladino: Sisilia f
• Latin: Sicilia (la) f
• Latvian: Sicīlija f
• Ligurian: Siçilia f
• Limburgish: Sicilië (li) n
• Lithuanian: Sicilija f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Sizilien n

• Luxembourgish: Sizilien n
• Macedonian: Сицилија f (Sicilija)
• Malayalam: സിസിലി (sisili)
• Maltese: Sqallija m
• Maori: Hihirī
• Marathi: सिसिली (sisilī), सिचिल्या (sicilyā)
• Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
• Mingrelian: სიცილია (sicilia)
• Neapolitan: Sicilia f
• Norman: Sicile f
• North Frisian: Siziilien n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sicilia f

  Nynorsk: Sicilia f

• Occitan: Sicília f
• Old English: Sicilia f
• Old Norse: Sikiley f, Sikelö
• Ossetian: Сицили (Sicili)
• Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا, صقلیه
• Persian: سیسیل (fa) (sisil), صقلیه (seqelliyye)
• Picard: Sicile f
• Piedmontese: Sicilia f
• Polish: Sycylia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sicília (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਿਚੀਲੀਆ (sicīlīā)
• Romanian: Sicilia f
• Russian: Сици́лия (ru) f (Sicílija)
• Sardinian: Sitzìlia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сѝцӣлија f

  Roman: Sìcīlija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Sicilia f
• Silesian: Sycylijo n
• Slovak: Sicília f
• Slovene: Sicílija (sl) f
• Somali: Sasiiliya
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Siciliska f

  Upper Sorbian: Sicilska f

• Spanish: Sicilia (es) f
• Swahili: Sisilia
• Swedish: Sicilien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Sisily
• Tamil: சிசிலி (cicili)
• Tarantino: Sicilie f
• Telugu: సిసిలీ (sisilī)
• Thai: ซิซิลี (sí-sí-lee)
• Tibetan: སི་ཅི་ལི་ཡ། (si ci li ya)
• Turkish: Sicilya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Сици́лія f (Sycýlija)
• Urdu: صقلیہ
• Venetan: Siciłia f
• Volapük: Sikileän (vo)
• Welsh: Sisili f
• West Flemish: Sicilië n
• West Frisian: Sisylje n
• Yakut: Сициилийэ (Sitsiiliye), Сицилия (Sitsiliya)
• Yiddish: סיציליע f (sitsilye)

See also

• (administrative regions of Italy) regions of Italy; Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Molise, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Trentino-Alto Adige, Tuscany, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto ^{(Category: en:Administrative regions of Italy)}