cilicium

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Latin

Noun

cilicium n (genitive ciliciī or cilicī); second declension

  1. rug or garment made from goat hair

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Catalan: cilici
  • French: cilice
  • German: Cilicium
  • Italian: cilicio
  • Portuguese: cilício
  • Spanish: cilicio

References

  • cilicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cilicium 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)
  • cilicium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cilicium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin