Σικανός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A Proto-Indo-European tribe of uncertain, possibly Ancient Ligurian affiliation, the Sicani's language is the earliest recorded stratum in Sicily. More at Sicani. Also compare Σικελός (Sikelós).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

Σῐκᾱνός • (Sikānós) m (genitive Σῐκᾱνοῦ); second declension

  1. a Sican or Sicanian (one of the Sicani)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Thucydides to this entry?)

Declension
Second declension of ὁ Σῐκᾱνός; τοῦ Σῐκᾱνοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Σῐκᾱνός
ho Sikānós		 τὼ Σῐκᾱνώ
tṑ Sikānṓ		 οἱ Σῐκᾱνοί
hoi Sikānoí
Genitive τοῦ Σῐκᾱνοῦ
toû Sikānoû		 τοῖν Σῐκᾱνοῖν
toîn Sikānoîn		 τῶν Σῐκᾱνῶν
tôn Sikānôn
Dative τῷ Σῐκᾱνῷ
tôi Sikānôi		 τοῖν Σῐκᾱνοῖν
toîn Sikānoîn		 τοῖς Σῐκᾱνοῖς
toîs Sikānoîs
Accusative τὸν Σῐκᾱνόν
tòn Sikānón		 τὼ Σῐκᾱνώ
tṑ Sikānṓ		 τοὺς Σῐκᾱνούς
toùs Sikānoús
Vocative Σῐκᾱνέ
Sikāné		 Σῐκᾱνώ
Sikānṓ		 Σῐκᾱνοί
Sikānoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: Σικανός (Sikanós)
  • Latin: Sicānus
    • English: Sican
    • Italian: sicano
    • Sicilian: sicanu

References
  • “Σικανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025
  • Aapologetico de la literatura española contra los opiniones"

Further reading
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