licium

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain origin; could be a loan from a non-Indo-European language [1].

Noun

līcium n (genitive līciī); second declension

loop in the texture woven, through which the basic fabric is pulled
thrum, leash
thread

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līcium	līcia
Genitive	līciī	līciōrum
Dative	līciō	līciīs
Accusative	līcium	līcia
Ablative	līciō	līciīs
Vocative	līcium	līcia

Derived terms

Descendants

Aragonese: liza
Aromanian: ljitsã
Catalan: lliç
French: lice, lisse
Italian: liccio

Occitan: liça, lissa
Portuguese: liço, liça
Romanian: iță
Spanish: lizo

References

De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Further reading

licium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
licium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
licium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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