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Sicel, n. and a.|ˈsɪsəl, ˈsɪkəl|
Also Sikel.
[ad. Gr. σικελός.]
A. n.
a. A member of an ancient people of Sicily.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj.
a. Of or pertaining to the Sicels or their language.
b. poet. Sicilian.
1838Thirlwall Hist. Greece II. xii. 92 The Sicels and the Phœnicians gradually retreated before the Greeks. 1881B. Jowett tr. Thucydides I. 409 The Sicels were originally inhabitants of Italy,..there are Sicels still in Italy, and the country itself was so called from Italus a Sicel king. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 15/1 Some Sikel elements made their way into the Greek life of Sicily. 1895L. Johnson Poems 37 Oh! Hellas lies far hence, Far the blue Sicel sea. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXV. 24/2 That the Sicels spoke a tongue closely akin to Latin is plain from several Sicel words which crept into Sicilian Greek, and from the Siceliot system of weights and measures. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 335 Besides the Italic dialects proper, mention must also be made of Sicel, of which a few glosses and an inscription of three lines have been preserved, and which seems to have belonged either to this group or to Ligurian. 1948T. J. Dunbabin Western Greeks i. 40 It appears that the Sikels moved from Sicily to Italy, not vice versa. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 182/2 The most important Sicel gods were the Palici..; Adranus..; and the goddess Hybla. 1977Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 31 Messapic and Sicel in the south take on new significance vis à vis Iberian. |