sic

• enPR: sĭk, IPA^(key): /sɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophones: sick, Sikh (one pronunciation)

From Latin sīc (“thus, so”).

sic (not comparable)

1. Thus; thus written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.
   • 1971, H. E. Wilkie Young; Elie Khadouri[e], quoting William Taylor, “'Narratives of Identity: The Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England'”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 7, quoted in 'Mosul in 1909', page 229:

     When it is all over they merge and go in a body to visit [...] the Telegraph Office – with plausible expressions of regret and excuses for the mob 'which' they say 'is deplorably ignorant and will not be restrained when its feelings are strongly moved' – sic, the fact being that the mob's feelings will never be 'moved' unless it is by one of them.

   • 2003, Monika Fludernik, 'The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction', Routledge, →ISBN, page 468:

     Bolinger, Dwight (1977) 'Pronoun and repeated nouns.' Lingua18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]

   • 2006, Christina Scull; Wayne G. Hammond, 'JRR Tolkien companion & guide', Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:

     *Joseph Wright, his predecessor in the chair, called him 'a firstrate Scholar and a kind of man who will easily make friends' at Oxford (quoted, sic, in E.M. Wright, The Life of Joseph Wright (1932), p. 483).

   • 2010, Paul Booth, Digital Fandom: New Media Studies, Peter Lang →ISBN, page 127

     Jim 's Interests: General: Working out, hanging out at the local bars, expanding my mind, eating Tuna Sandwhiches...or so I'm told and poker... Television: ... this show that's on Thuresday nights at 8 :30pm... I can't place the name of it but it has this crazy interview style thing...[all sic]

   • 2012, Milton J. Bates, The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed, Wisconsin Historical Society →ISBN, page 271

     whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers ( New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)

Sic is frequently used to indicate that an error or apparent error of spelling, grammar, or logic has been quoted faithfully; for instance, quoting the U.S. Constitution:

The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker ...

Sic is often set off from surrounding text by parentheses or brackets, which sometimes enclose additional notes, as:

• 1884, James Grant, Cassell's old and new Edinburgh, page 99:

  This I may say of her, to which all that saw her will bear record, that her only countenance moved [sic, meaning that its expression alone was touching], although she had not spoken a word […]

Because it is not an abbreviation, it does not require a following period.

• sic passim (used to indicate that the preceding word, phrase, or term is used in the same manner (or form) throughout the remainder of a text)
• sic transit gloria mundi (fame is temporary; lit. "so passes the glory of the world")
• sic semper tyrannis ("thus always to tyrants", a quotation attributed to Brutus at the assassination of Caesar, and shouted in reference by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln)

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

1. To mark with a bracketed sic.[1]

   E. Belfort Bax wrote "... the modern reviewer's taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates."[1][2]

Variant of seek.

• sick

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

1. (transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.

   He sicced his dog on me!

2. (transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.

   Sic 'em, Mitzi.

• The sense of "set upon" is most commonly used as an imperative, in a command to an animal.

• -ics, CIS, CSI, ICS, ICs, I²Cs, SCI, Sci., cis, cis-, sci, sci.

From Latin sīc (“thus, so”).

sic

1. sic

• “sic” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siːk/

From older sīce or seic, from sī +‎ -c, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). See also Latin hic, cis, sī, English he.

sīc (not comparable)

1. thus, so, just like that
   • 45 BC, Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, Book II.42

     Ut ager, quamvis fertilis, sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.

     Just as the field, however fertile, without cultivation cannot be fruitful, likewise the soul without education.

2. yet

• sic transit gloria mundi
• sic semper tyrannis

sīc (positive particle)

1. (Medieval Latin) yes

• sic in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sic in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sic in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • that is the way of the world; such is life: sic vita hominum est
    
  • the facts are these; the matter stands thus: res ita est, ita (sic) se habet
    
  • convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: sic habeto
    
  • convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: sic volo te tibi persuadere
    
  • to represent a thing dramatically: sic exponere aliquid, quasi agatur res (non quasi narretur)
    
  • anger is defined as a passionate desire for revenge: iracundiam sic (ita) definiunt, ut ulciscendi libidinem esse dicant or ut u. libido sit or iracundiam sic definiunt, ulc. libidinem
    
  • I felt quite at home in his house: apud eum sic fui tamquam domi meae (Fam. 13. 69)
    
• sic in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

sic (not comparable)

1. sic (used to indicated that a quoted word has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text)

• sich

sic (not comparable)

1. such
   • 1869, Robert Burns, “The Tree of Liberty”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume III (Posthumous Poems) (in English), Kilmarnock, Scotland: Printed by James M‘Kie, OCLC 892088677, page 360:

     I'd gie my ſhoon frae aff my feet, / To taſte ſic fruit, I ſwear, man. / Syne let us pray, auld England may / Sure plant this far-famed tree, man; / And blythe we'll ſing, and hail the day / That gave us liberty, man.

sic

1. such

• zȉc

From Upper German Sitz.

• IPA^(key): /sît͡s/

sȉc m (Cyrillic spelling си̏ц)

1. (regional) seat (of a vehicle)

• sjȅdalo

• “sic” in Hrvatski jezični portal