ancile

English

Etymology

Noun

ancile (plural anciles)

(historical, Roman antiquity) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ancile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Celina, NELIAC, alcine, inlace

Italian

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ancile m (plural ancili)

The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ambi-kaid-slis, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-. Compare ambi-, caedō

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /anˈkiː.le/, [aŋˈkiː.ɫɛ]

Noun

ancīle n (genitive ancīlis); third declension

The sacred shield said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Declension

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ancīle	ancīlia
Genitive	ancīlis	ancīlium
Dative	ancīlī	ancīlibus
Accusative	ancīle	ancīlia
Ablative	ancīlī	ancīlibus
Vocative	ancīle	ancīlia

The genitive plural can be also ancīlorum.

References

ancile in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ancile in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
ancile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
ancile in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
ancile in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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