siclus

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew שקל.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.klus/, [ˈs̠ɪkɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.klus/, [ˈsiːklus]

siclus m (genitive siclī); second declension

1. shekel (Hebrew coin)

Second-declension noun.

From earlier situlus, masculine counterpart to situla. Found in Saint Antoninus of Piacenza. For the sound changes, cf. the reconstructed *sicla.

siclus m (genitive siclī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. bucket

Second-declension noun.

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 966: “il secchio di legno” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sĭtŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 667

• “siclus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• siclus 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)
• siclus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “siclus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin