See also: Sicarius

Latin edit

Etymology edit

sīca (dagger) +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sīcārius m (genitive sīcāriī or sīcārī); second declension

  1. assassin, contract killer, murderer

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sīcārius sīcāriī
Genitive sīcāriī
sīcārī1
sīcāriōrum
Dative sīcāriō sīcāriīs
Accusative sīcārium sīcāriōs
Ablative sīcāriō sīcāriīs
Vocative sīcārie sīcāriī

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

Descendants edit

  • Catalan: sicari
  • English: Sicarius
  • Esperanto: sikario
  • French: sicaire
  • Italian: sicario
  • Portuguese: sicário
  • Spanish: sicario

References edit

  • sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sicarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
  • sicarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sicarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin