ancile

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English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ancile (plural ancilia or anciles)

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  1. (historical, Roman antiquity) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ancile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

ancile m (plural ancili)

  1. 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

Noun

ancīle n (genitive ancīlis); third declension

  1. 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).

Case 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
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