sicario
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See also: sicário
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sicario (plural sicarios)
- hitman, hired killer (especially when referring to Latin American drug cartels)
- 1992, Tina Rosenberg, Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America, page 34:
- The traffickers created a Frankenstein's monster that gradually slipped out of their control: the sicarios.
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin sīcārius (“murderer, assassin”), derived from sīca (“poniard, curved dagger”). By surface analysis, sica (“curved dagger”) + -ario (“-ary”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sicario m (plural sicari)
- hitman (hired killer)
- Synonyms: assassino, killer, accoltellatore
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]sīcāriō
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin sīcārius (“murderer, assassin”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sicario m (plural sicarios, feminine sicaria, feminine plural sicarias)
- hitman (hired killer)
Further reading
[edit]- “sicario”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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