Sicilia

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

• 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

• (administrative regions of Italy) regioni d'Italia; Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardia, Marche, Molise, Piemonte, Puglia, Sardegna, Sicilia, Toscana, Trentino-Alto Adige, Umbria, Valle d'Aosta, Veneto ^{(Category: it:Administrative regions of Italy)}

• lisciai, sialici

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /siˈki.li.a/, [s̠ɪˈkɪlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈt͡ʃi.li.a/, [siˈt͡ʃiːliä]

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

• Catalan: Sicília
• French: Sicile
  • → Persian: سیسیل (sisil)
• Italian: Sicilia
  • → Albanian: Sicila
  • → Japanese: シチリア
  • → Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا
    • Turkish: Sicilya
• Old Galician-Portuguese: Cezilla
• Portuguese: Sicília
• Sicilian: Sicilia
• Spanish: Sicilia
• → Czech: Sicílie
• → Dutch: Sicilie
• → German: Sizilien
• → Hungarian: Szicília
• → Old English: Sicilia
  • Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
    • English: Sicily
• → Old Norse: Sikiley
  • Icelandic: Sikiley
• → Polish: Sycylia
• → Russian: Сици́лия (Sicílija), Сици́лія (Sicílija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Kazakh: Сицилия (Sisiliä)
  • → Kyrgyz: Сицилия (Sitsiliya)
  • → Uzbek: Sitsiliya

• “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.

• 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): (Spain) /siˈθilja/ [siˈθi.lja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈsilja/ [siˈsi.lja]
• 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)