Sicania

Latin

Sicānia in mediā imāgine colōre viridī mōnstrātur.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σικανία (Sikanía).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /siˈkaː.ni.a/, [s̠ɪˈkäːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈka.ni.a/, [siˈkäːniä]

Proper noun

Sicānia f sg (genitive Sicāniae); first declension

1. Sicania (an ancient region in Sicily, in modern Italy)
2. Sicily, Trinacria (an island south of and belonging to modern Italy)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.465–466:

     Sicaniam repetit, dumque omnia lustrat eundo, / venit et ad Cyanen.

     She returned to Sicily, and while crossing it from end to end, she came to Cyane.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.14:

     Verum ante omnes claritate Sicilia, Sicania Thucydidi dicta, Trinacria pluribus aut Trinacia a triangula specie...

     But before all the islands of the Mediterranean in renown stands Sicily, called by Thucydides Sicania and by a good many authors Triuacria or Trinacia from its triangular shape...

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Sicānia
genitive	Sicāniae
dative	Sicāniae
accusative	Sicāniam
ablative	Sicāniā
vocative	Sicānia

Related terms

• sicānus
• sicānicus

References

• “Sicania”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sicania in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.