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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Celtic.
Pronunciation
Noun
cisium n (genitive cisiī or cisī); second declension
- a light, two-wheeled carriage, a gig
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “cisium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cisium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cisium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cisium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cisium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin