Sicilia

See also: sicilià and Sicília

English

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, Sicel), the name of the Sicel people.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪˈsɪljə/

Proper noun

Sicilia (uncountable)

  1. a province of the Roman Empire (consisting of the island of Sicily)

Galician

Proper noun

Sicilia

  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)

Interlingua

Proper noun

Sicilia

  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)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Sicilia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siˈt͡ʃi.lja/
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia
  • (file)

Proper noun

Sicilia 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)
    Synonym: (obsolete) Trinacria

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Albanian: Sicila
  • Japanese: シチリア
  • Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
  • Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا

See also

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, Sicel), the name of the Sicel people.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sicilia f sg (genitive Siciliae); first declension

  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

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Sicilia
Genitive Siciliae
Dative Siciliae
Accusative Siciliam
Ablative Siciliā
Vocative Sicilia
Locative Siciliae

Derived terms

  • Siciliensis

Descendants

References

  • Sicilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Sicilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sicilia

  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)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Sicilia

  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)

Old English

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, Sicel), the name of the Sicel people.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsiˌki.li.ɑ/

Proper noun

Sicilia f

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

Declension

Descendants

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, Sicel), the name of the Sicel people.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siˈʃiːlja/, /siˈɕiːlja/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia

Proper noun

Sicilia 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)

Derived terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /siˈθilja/ [siˈθi.lja]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /siˈsilja/ [siˈsi.lja]
  • Rhymes: -ilja
  • Syllabification: Si‧ci‧lia

Proper noun

Sicilia 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)
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