sica.
dagger;
Meaning & usage
a dagger, dirk, poniard
the edge of a boar's tusk
Cum arbore et saxō aprī exacuant dentium sīcās.
Where this word comes from
Unknown; suggested to be borrowed from Proto-Albanian *tˢ́ika, or more appropriately, Pre-Proto-Albanian *ćīkā. This better explains the long ī in Latin, which was absent in outdated reconstructions of Proto-Albanian and led scholars to assume the borrowing was reversed. See Albanian thikë (“knife”) for more. Despite matching semantics and superficially similar phonetics, not related to secō (“to cut”). There are competing hypotheses about whether sī̆cī̆lis (“sickle”) is derived from sīca: De Vaan assumes it is, whereas von Wartburg, following Romance evidence that implies short vowels in its first two syllables, treats the word for 'sickle' as a derivative of secō. If von Wartburg is correct, it is necessary to distinguish the noun meaning 'sickle' from a separate noun sīcīlis (“spearhead”) used by Ennius, which is from sīca.
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