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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; could be a loan from a non-Indo-European language.[1]
Noun
līcium n (genitive līciī or līcī); second declension
- loop in the texture woven, through which the basic fabric is pulled
- thrum, leash
- thread
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “licium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “licium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “licium”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.