sicarius

See also: Sicarius

Latin

Etymology

sīca (“dagger”) +‎ -ārius

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /siːˈkaː.ri.us/, [siːˈkaː.ri.ʊs]

Noun

sīcārius m (genitive sīcāriī); second declension

  1. assassin, murderer

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sīcārius sīcāriī
Genitive sīcāriī sīcāriōrum
Dative sīcāriō sīcāriīs
Accusative sīcārium sīcāriōs
Ablative sīcāriō sīcāriīs
Vocative sīcārie sīcāriī

Descendants

References
  • sicarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sicarius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sicarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
  • sicarius in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sicarius in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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