sicario

From Spanish sicario.

sicario (plural sicarios)

1. hitman, hired killer (especially when referring to Latin American drug cartels)
   • 1992, Tina Rosenberg, Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America, p. 34:

     The traffickers created a Frankenstein's monster that gradually slipped out of their control: the sicarios.

From Latin sīcārius (“murderer, assassin”), derived from sīca (“poniard, curved dagger”). Equivalent to sica (“curved dagger”) +‎ -ario (“-ary”).

• IPA^(key): /siˈka.rjo/, [s̪iˈkäːr̺jo]
• Stress: sicàrio
• Hyphenation: si‧ca‧rio

sicario m (plural sicarî)

1. hitman (hired killer)

   Synonyms: assassino, killer, accoltellatore

• sica

• Acrisio, Arcisio, cariosi, rosicai

sīcāriō

1. dative singular of sīcārius
2. ablative singular of sīcārius

From Latin sīcārius (“murderer, assassin”).

• IPA^(key): /siˈkaɾjo/

sicario m (plural sicarios, feminine sicaria, feminine plural sicarias)

1. hitman (hired killer)

• “sicario” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.