Sicilia

From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people. Doublet of Sicily.

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈsɪljə/

Sicilia (uncountable)

1. A province of the Roman Empire (consisting of the island of Sicily).

Sicilia ?

1. Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

• siciliano

Sicilia

1. Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

Borrowed from Latin Sicilia.

• IPA^(key): /siˈt͡ʃi.lja/
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia

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Sicilia f

1. Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

   Synonym: (obsolete) Trinacria

• siciliano
• siculo

• → Albanian: Sicila
• → Japanese: シチリア
• → Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا
  • Turkish: Sicilya

• lisciai, sialici

From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪˈkɪ.li.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈt͡ʃiː.li.a]

Sicilia f sg (genitive Siciliae); first declension

1. Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Siciliensis

• Siculī
• Siculus
• Sīcelis

• “Sicilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sicilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Sicilia

1. Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

• sicilianer
• siciliansk

Sicilia

1. Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

• sicilianar
• siciliansk

From Latin Sicilia from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiˌki.li.ɑ/

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (an island and former kingdom in Europe)
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Sicilia þæt īġland is þrȳsċȳte.

     The island of Sicily is three-sided.

Indeclinable:

• Sicilie
• Sicilisċ

• Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
  • English: Sicily

• Sicìlia (quadri-syllabic)

From an earlier (now less prevalent) Sicìlia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

• IPA^(key): /siˈʃilja/, /siˈɕilja/

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• Rhymes: -ilja
• Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

• sicilianu

• IPA^(key): /siˈθilja/ [siˈθi.lja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /siˈsilja/ [siˈsi.lja] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ilja
• Syllabification: Si‧ci‧lia

Sicilia f

1. Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)