Σικελία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Σῐ́κελος (Sĭ́kelos, “Sicel”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /si.ke.lí.aː/ → /si.ceˈli.a/ → /si.ceˈli.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /si.ke.lí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /si.keˈli.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /si.ceˈli.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /si.ceˈli.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /si.ceˈli.a/

Proper noun

Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ • (Sĭkelĭ́ā) f (genitive Σῐκελῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Sicily (an island and former kingdom in Europe)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Σῐκελῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ hē Sĭkelĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς Σῐκελῐ́ᾱς tês Sĭkelĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ Σῐκελῐ́ᾳ têi Sĭkelĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν Σῐκελῐ́ᾱν tḕn Sĭkelĭ́ān
Vocative	Σῐκελῐ́ᾱ Sĭkelĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Σῐκελῐώτης (Sĭkelĭṓtēs)

Related terms

• Σῐκελῐκός (Sĭkelĭkós)

Descendants

• Greek: Σικελία (Sikelía)
• → Arabic: صِقِلِّيَّة (ṣiqilliyya)
  • Maltese: Sqallija
  • → Azerbaijani: Siqilliyyə
  • → Ottoman Turkish: صقلیه (sıkılliye)
    • Turkish: Sıkılliye
  • → Persian: صقلیه (seqelliyye)
  • → Tajik: Сиқиллия (Siqilliya)
  • → Urdu: صقلیہ
  • → Uzbek: Siqilliya
• → Latin: Sicelia, Sicilia
  • 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

References

• “Σικελία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Σικελία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,025

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ceˈli.a/

Proper noun

Σικελία • (Sikelía) 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)

Declension

Declension of Σικελία

	singular
nominative	Σικελία (Sikelía)
genitive	Σικελίας (Sikelías)
accusative	Σικελία (Sikelía)
vocative	Σικελία (Sikelía)

Related terms

• Σικελή f (Sikelí, “Sicilian”)
• σικελικός (sikelikós, “Sicilian”, adj)
• Σικελιώτης m (Sikeliótis, “male Sicilian”)
• σικελιώτικος (sikeliótikos, “Sicilian”, adj)
• Σικελιώτισσα f (Sikeliótissa, “female Sicilian”)
• Σικελός m (Sikelós, “Sicilian”)
• (colloquial) σιτσιάνικος (sitsiánikos, “Sicilian”, adj)
• (colloquial) Σιτσιλιάνα f (Sitsiliána, “female Sicilian”)
• (colloquial) Σιτσιλιάνος m (Sitsiliános, “male Sicilian”)

Further reading

• Σικελία on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el