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名詞

sica (plural sicas or sicae)

1. (historical) A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.
   • 1996, Richard Ashton, Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey, British Inst of Archaeology at:

     [...] representation of a sheathed sickle on two fragments of a limestone plaque from Siristat (Figure 12). The plaque has not survived and only a sketch made by Jüthner records it. The publishers thought it showed a gladiatorial sica […]

   • 2004 April 19, Junius Podrug, Dark Passage, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 302:

     He had been honing the blades of sica daggers when Marie was brought in, work that could only be done in the secrecy of night. The huddle broke up and four Sicarii left, including the man with the nervous eyes.

   • 2016 August 29, Kevin Logan, Actual Love: A Novel Inspired By True Events, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

     We growled as short sica daggers flashed from the folds of many robes.

関連する語

• Sicarius

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “sica”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• SIAC, ICAs, CAIs, ICAS, Saci, CIAs, ACIs, CISA, ACSI, asci, CAIS, ASIC, IACs, saic, SAIC

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsiː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsiː.ka]

名詞

sīca f (genitive sīcae); first declension

1. a dagger, dirk, poniard
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.16:

     Quotiēns iam tibi extorta est ista sīca de manibus?

     How many times already has that dagger been wrested from your hands?

2. the edge of a boar's tusk

   Cum arbore et saxō aprī exacuant dentium sīcās.

   Boars may sharpen the edge of their tusks using tree and stone.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

• → English: sica
• → Italian: sica
• →? Proto-Albanian: *tsikā
  • Albanian: thikë

参照

Further reading

• “sica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sica", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sica”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to plunge a dagger, knife in some one's heart: sicam, cultrum in corde alicuius defigere (Liv. 1. 58)
    
• “sica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin