sicle

See also: -sicle

English

Etymology

French, from Latin siclus, from Hebrew.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪkəl/, /ˈsaɪkəl/

Noun

sicle (plural sicles)

1. (obsolete) A shekel.
   • 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:

     The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sicle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Celis, ILECs, Leics, Sicel, Slice, ceils, ciels, clies, slice

French

Noun

sicle m (plural sicles)

1. (historical) shekel (weight)

Further reading

• “sicle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Noun

sicle

1. vocative singular of siclus