sicca

English

Alternative forms

• sikkah

Etymology

From Hindustani سکہ (sikka) / सिक्का (sikkā), from Classical Persian سکه (sikka), from Arabic سِكَّة (sikka)

Noun

sicca (plural siccas)

1. (India, archaic) A great seal.
   • 1839 September 2, Charles Ovans, “Memorandum of Papers received from his Highness the Raja of Sattara”, in Papers Relating to the Commission of Inquiry Held at Sattara in October 1836, published 1843, page 99:

     Letter to Bajeerao Pundit, stamped with the sicca.

   • 1848 April 7, H. B. E. Frere, “Letter from H. B. E. Frere, Esquire, Resident at Sattara, to H. E. Goldsmid, Esquire […]”, in Papers Relating to the Question of the Disposal of the Sattara State in Consequence of the Death of the Late Raja, published 1849, page 30:

     They are in a more formal shape, bearing at the top the “sicca,” or great seal of state, which is only used on grants, treaties, and other documents of similar importance; […]

   • 1883 November 16, O. Codrington, “On the Seals of the late Satara Kingdom”, in The Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume 16, number 42, page 127:

     In the case of documents bearing the Sicca of the Raja, the seals of the ministers of the departments of the State concerned were added just below the Raja’s; […]

2. Ellipsis of sicca rupee.

Derived terms

• Osmania sicca
• sicca rupee

See also

etymologically unrelated

• keratoconjunctivitis sicca
• rhinitis sicca
• sicca syndrome

 

Further reading

• “sicca”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sacci

Latin

Adjective

sicca

1. inflection of siccus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

siccā

1. ablative feminine singular of siccus

References

• sicca 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)
• “sicca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray