Sicania

Latin
Sicānia in mediā imāgine colōre viridī mōnstrātur.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σικανία (Sikanía).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /siˈkaː.ni.a/, [s̠ɪˈkäːniä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siˈka.ni.a/, [siˈkäːniä]

Proper noun

Sicānia f sg (genitive Sicāniae); first declension

  1. Sicania
  2. Sicily, Trinacria
    • 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.

Case Singular
Nominative Sicānia
Genitive Sicāniae
Dative Sicāniae
Accusative Sicāniam
Ablative Sicāniā
Vocative Sicānia

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
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