Sicilia
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English
Etymology
From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sicilia (uncountable)
- a province of the Roman Empire (consisting of the island of Sicily)
Galician
Proper noun
Sicilia
- 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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Interlingua
Proper noun
Sicilia
- 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
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sicilia 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)
- Synonym: (obsolete) Trinacria
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: Sicila
- → Japanese: シチリア
- → Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
- → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا
- Turkish: Sicilya
See also
- (administrative regions of Italy) regioni d'Italia; Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, Puglia, Sardegna, Sicilia, Toscana, Trentino-Alto Adige, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto (Category: it:Administrative regions of Italy)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /siˈki.li.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siˈt͡ʃi.li.a/,
Proper noun
Sicilia f sg (genitive Siciliae); first declension
- 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
Related terms
Descendants
- 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
- “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
- 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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Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Sicilia
- 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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Old English
Etymology
From Latin Sicilia from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sicilia f
Declension
Declension of Sicilia (indeclinable)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Sicilia | — |
| accusative | Sicilia | — |
| genitive | Sicilia | — |
| dative | Sicilia | — |
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Descendants
Sicilian
Alternative forms
- Sicìlia (quadri-syllabic)
Etymology
From an earlier (now less prevalent) Sicìlia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Sicilia 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)
Derived terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /siˈθilja/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /siˈsilja/
- Rhymes: -ilja
- Syllabification: Si‧ci‧lia
Proper noun
Sicilia 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)