ancile
English
Etymology
Noun
ancile (plural ancilia or anciles)
- (historical, Roman antiquity) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “ancile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *amβikaidslis, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-. Compare ambi-, caedō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /anˈkiː.le/, [äŋˈkiːɫ̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈt͡ʃi.le/, [än̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːle]
Noun
ancīle n (genitive ancīlis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ancīle | ancīlia |
| Genitive | ancīlis | ancīlium |
| Dative | ancīlī | ancīlibus |
| Accusative | ancīle | ancīlia |
| Ablative | ancīlī | ancīlibus |
| Vocative | ancīle | ancīlia |
The genitive plural can be also ancīliorum.
References
- “ancile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ancile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ancile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “ancile”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ancile”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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