illicium

Latin illiciō (“entice”)

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɪsiəm/

illicium (plural illicia)

1. (ichthyology) The modified dorsal fin on the head of anglerfish, acting as a lure.

• esca

From illiciō +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪlˈlɪ.ki.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ilˈliː.t͡ʃi.um]

illicium n (genitive illiciī or illicī); second declension

1. attractant, enticement
2. convocation

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• illex
• illecebra

• illicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• illicium in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “illicium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press