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Latin
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (šɛ́qɛl).
Pronunciation
Noun
siclus m (genitive siclī); second declension
- shekel (Hebrew coin)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
Etymology 2
Noun
siclus m (genitive siclī); second declension (Late Latin)
- Alternative form of situla (in the writings of Antoninus of Piacenza;[1] for syncope and then /tl/ > /kl/, cf. veclus)
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “siclus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- siclus 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)
- siclus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “siclus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin