# Sicilia
## English
### Etymology

From Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people. Doublet of Sicily.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪˈsɪljə/

### Proper noun

Sicilia (uncountable)
* A province of the Roman Empire (consisting of the island of Sicily).

## Galician
### Proper noun

Sicilia
* Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

#### Related terms

* siciliano

## Interlingua
### Proper noun

Sicilia
* Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Sicilia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siˈt͡ʃi.lja/
* Rhymes: -ilja
* Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Sicilia f
* Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)
    Synonym: (obsolete) Trinacria

#### Derived terms

* siciliano
* siculo

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: Sicila
* → Japanese: シチリア
* → Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
* → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا
** Turkish: Sicilya

### See also

* Abruzzo
* Basilicata
* Calabria
* Campania
* Emilia-Romagna
* Friuli-Venezia Giulia
* Lazio
* Liguria
* Lombardia
* Marche
* Molise
* Piemonte
* Puglia
* Sardegna
* Sicilia
* Toscana
* Trentino-Alto Adige
* Umbria
* Valle d'Aosta
* Veneto

### Anagrams

* lisciai, sialici

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /siˈki.li.a/, [s̠ɪˈkɪlʲiä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /siˈt͡ʃi.li.a/, [siˈt͡ʃiːliä]

### Proper noun

Sicilia f sg (genitive Siciliae); first declension
* Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

#### Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

#### Derived terms

* Siciliensis

#### Related terms

* Siculī
* Siculus
* Sīcelis

#### Descendants

* Catalan: Sicília
* French: Sicile
** → Persian: سیسیل (sisil)
* Italian: Sicilia
** → Albanian: Sicila
** → Japanese: シチリア
** → Korean: 시칠리아 (sichillia)
** → Ottoman Turkish: سچلیا
*** Turkish: Sicilya
* Old Galician-Portuguese: Cezilla
* Portuguese: Sicília
* Sicilian: Sicilia
* Spanish: Sicilia
* → Czech: Sicílie
* → Dutch: Sicilie
* → German: Sizilien
* → Hungarian: Szicília
* → Old English: Sicilia
** Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
*** English: Sicily
* → Old Norse: Sikiley
** Icelandic: Sikiley
* → Polish: Sycylia
* → Russian: Сици́лия (Sicílija), Сици́лія (Sicílija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
** → Kazakh: Сицилия (Sisiliä)
** → Kyrgyz: Сицилия (Sitsiliya)
** → Uzbek: Sitsiliya

### References

* “Sicilia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* Sicilia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Proper noun

Sicilia
* Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

#### Related terms

* sicilianer
* siciliansk

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Proper noun

Sicilia
* Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

#### Related terms

* sicilianar
* siciliansk

## Old English
### Etymology

From Latin Sicilia from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsiˌki.li.ɑ/

### Proper noun

Sicilia f
* Sicily (an island and former kingdom in Europe)
** late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
    Sicilia þæt īġland is þrȳsċȳte.The island of Sicily is three-sided.

#### Declension

Indeclinable:

#### Related terms

* Sicilie
* Sicilisċ

#### Descendants

* Middle English: Sicilie, Sicilye
** English: Sicily

## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* Sicìlia (quadri-syllabic)

### Etymology

From an earlier (now less prevalent) Sicìlia, from Latin Sicilia, from Ancient Greek Σικελία (Sikelía), from Σίκελος (Síkelos, “Sicel”), the name of the Sicel people.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siˈʃilja/, /siˈɕilja/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ilja
* Hyphenation: Si‧cì‧lia

### Proper noun

Sicilia f
* Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

#### Derived terms

* sicilianu

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /siˈθilja/ [siˈθi.lja]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈsilja/ [siˈsi.lja]
* Rhymes: -ilja
* Syllabification: Si‧ci‧lia

### Proper noun

Sicilia f
* Sicily (The largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, an autonomous region of Italy, close to Africa and separated from Tunisia and Libya by the Strait of Sicily)

#### Related terms

* siciliano