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Latin
Etymology
sīca (“dagger”) + -ārius
Pronunciation
Noun
sīcārius m (genitive sīcāriī or sīcārī); second declension
- assassin, contract killer, murderer
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sicarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
- “sicarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sicarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin