siccus
Latin
Etymology
Probably from Proto-Italic *siskwos, from Proto-Indo-European *sisku- (“dry”), presumably from *seyk-, *sek- (“to dry up”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἰσχνός (iskhnós), Proto-Celtic *siskʷos, Lithuanian sèkti (“to lower oneself, sink, dry out”), Sanskrit असश्चुषी (asaścuṣī, “not drying up”), though the phonetic details are unclear.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsɪk.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsik.kus]
Adjective
siccus (feminine sicca, neuter siccum, comparative siccior); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | siccus | sicca | siccum | siccī | siccae | sicca | |
| genitive | siccī | siccae | siccī | siccōrum | siccārum | siccōrum | |
| dative | siccō | siccae | siccō | siccīs | |||
| accusative | siccum | siccam | siccum | siccōs | siccās | sicca | |
| ablative | siccō | siccā | siccō | siccīs | |||
| vocative | sicce | sicca | siccum | siccī | siccae | sicca | |
Derived terms
Related terms
- assiccescō
- assiccō
- dēsiccō
- exsiccātiō
- exsiccātus
- exsiccescō
- exsiccō
- insiccābilis
- insiccātus
- perexsiccātus
- persiccātus
- praesiccō
- siccābilis
- siccāneus
- siccārius
- siccātiō
- siccātīvus
- siccātōrius
- siccescō
Descendants
- Aromanian: sec
- Asturian: secu
- Catalan: sec
- Corsican: seccu, siccu
- Franco-Provençal: sèc
- French: sec
- → Dutch: sec
- Friulian: sec
- Guinea-Bissau Creole: seku
- Gallo-Italic:
- Italian: secco
- Kabuverdianu: seku
- Neapolitan: sicco
- Norman: sec
- Occitan: sec
- Old Galician-Portuguese: seco
- Papiamentu: seku
- → Proto-Brythonic: *sɨx
- Romanian: sec
- Romansch: setg, sitg
- Sardinian: siccu
- Sicilian: siccu
- Spanish: seco
- Venetan: seco
- Walloon: setch
References
- “siccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “siccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "siccus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- siccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 562