sicera

Latin

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῑ́κερᾰ (sī́kera), itself the Septuagint rendition of Hebrew שֵׁכָר (šēḵār), used to refer to strong drinks, from Proto-Semitic *šikar- (“alcoholic drink”).

sīcera f (genitive sīcerae); first declension

First-declension noun.

→ Middle English: ciser, siser, cisar, seser, cyser, sicer, syser, cisere
- → English: cyser
Old French: cisdre, sidre
- → Breton: sistr
- French: cidre
  - → German: Cidre
  - → Polish: cydr
  - → Romanian: cidru
  - → Russian: сидр (sidr)
  - → Ukrainian: сидр (sydr)
- → Middle Dutch: sider
  - Dutch: cider
- → Middle English: sider, sedyr, cedyr, sydyr, cidre, sidre, syder, sydur, siþer, sythere, sydir, sidur, sithir, cyther, cyder
  - English: cider
    - → Bulgarian: са́йдер (sájder)
    - → Finnish: siideri
    - → Jersey Dutch: sâiter
    - → Japanese: サイダー (saidā)
    - → Korean: 사이다 (saida)
  - Scots: cedar (obsolete)
  - → Welsh: seidr
- → Galician: sidra
- → Spanish: sidra
  - → Catalan: sidra
  - → Tagalog: sidra
- → Italian: sidro.

“sicera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
sicera 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)
sicera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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