Σικελία
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Σῐ́κελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /si.ke.lí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /si.keˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /si.ceˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /si.ceˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /si.ceˈli.a/
Proper noun
Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ • (Sikelíā) f (genitive Σῐκελῐ́ᾱς); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ἡ Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ hē Sikelíā | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Σῐκελῐ́ᾱς tês Sikelíās | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Σῐκελῐ́ᾳ têi Sikelíāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Σῐκελῐ́ᾱν tḕn Sikelíān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ Sikelíā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Σῐκελῐώτης (Sikeliṓtēs)
Related terms
- Σῐκελῐκός (Sikelikós)
Descendants
- Greek: Σικελία (Sikelía)
- → Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة (ṣiqilliyya)
- → Latin: Sicelia, Sicilia
- Catalan: Sicília
- French: Sicile
- → Persian: سیسیل (sisil)
- Italian: Sicilia
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Cezilla
- Portuguese: Sicília
- Sicilian: Sicilia
- Spanish: Sicilia
- → Czech: Sicílie
- → Dutch: Sicilie
- → German: Sizilien
- → Hungarian: Szicília
- → Old English: Sicilia
- → Old Norse: Sikiley
- Icelandic: Sikiley
- → Polish: Sycylia
- → Russian: Сици́лия (Sicílija), Сици́лія (Sicílija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
References
- “Σικελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Σικελία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Σικελία • (Sikelía) f
- 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
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Σικελία (Sikelía) |
| genitive | Σικελίας (Sikelías) |
| accusative | Σικελία (Sikelía) |
| vocative | Σικελία (Sikelía) |
Related terms
- Σικελή f (Sikelí, “Sicilian”)
- Σικελός m (Sikelós, “Sicilian”)
- σικελικός (sikelikós, “Sicilian”, adj)
- Σικελιώτης m (Sikeliótis, “male Sicilian”)
- Σικελιώτισσα f (Sikeliótissa, “female Sicilian”)
- σικελιώτικος (sikeliótikos, “Sicilian”, adj)
- (colloquial) Σιτσιλιάνα f (Sitsiliána, “female Sicilian”)
- (colloquial) Σιτσιλιάνος m (Sitsiliános, “male Sicilian”)
- (colloquial) σιτσιάνικος (sitsiánikos, “Sicilian”, adj)
Further reading
Σικελία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
