sicarius

See also: Sicarius

Latin

Etymology

sīca (“dagger”) +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation

Noun

sīcārius m (genitive sīcāriī or sīcārī); second declension

  1. assassin, contract killer, murderer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sīcārius sīcāriī
Genitive sīcāriī
sīcārī1		 sīcāriōrum
Dative sīcāriō sīcāriīs
Accusative sīcārium sīcāriōs
Ablative sīcāriō sīcāriīs
Vocative sīcārie sīcāriī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants
  • → Catalan: sicari
  • → English: Sicarius
  • → Esperanto: sikario
  • → French: sicaire
  • → Italian: sicario
  • → Portuguese: sicário
  • → Spanish: sicario

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
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