ancile
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English
Etymology
Noun
ancile (plural ancilia or anciles)
- (Ancient Rome) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa Pompilius. 11 copies were said to have been made, and it was the palladium of Rome.
References
- “ancile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Latin.
Noun
ancile m (plural ancili)
- the sacred shield of the Ancient Romans
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *amβikaidslis, from *amβi (“around”) + *kaidō (“to cut”) (whence ambi- and caedō respectively), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi and *kh₂eyd- respectively.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /anˈkiː.le/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈt͡ʃi.le/,
Noun
ancīle n (genitive ancīlis); third declension
- The sacred shield said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
| 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 ancīliōrum.
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