Sicilian

From Latin Sicilia +‎ -an.^[1] By surface analysis, Sicily +‎ -an.

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈsɪlɪən/, /sɪˈsɪljən/

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• Homophone: caecilian

Sicilian (not comparable)

1. Of, from or relating to Sicily, Italy.
   • 2020 June 12, Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales, “Should we defund the police?”, in Capitalisn't‎^[1]:

     Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?

Sicilian

1. The language of Sicily.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sicilian terms

• ISO 639-3 code scn (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Sicilian, scn ⁠
• “Sicilian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Sicilian (plural Sicilians)

1. A native or inhabitant of Sicily, <<c/Italy>.
   • 1861, The Foreign Quarterly Review, volume 75, page 553:

     The picture of devastated Palermo which he draws fills up the measure of the dastardly oppression which has now passed away; more disgraceful excesses than those committed by the Bavarese, as the Sicilians called the royal troops, were [...]

2. Any chess opening that starts 1 e4 c5.
   • 2009, Reg Keeland, translator, The Girl Who Played with Fire (translation of, 2006 (publication date), Stieg Larsson, Flickan som lekte med elden), Knopf, →ISBN, chapter 9, page 129:

     Palmgren was playing white and had opened the Sicilian quite correctly.

• (opening): the Sicilian Defence, the Sicilian Defense

• silician