"Sicani" meaning in Latin

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Proper name

IPA: [sɪˈkaː.niː] [Classical-Latin], [siˈkaː.ni] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σικᾰνοί (Sikănoí), Σικανός (Sikanós). An Indo-European tribe of uncertain, possibly Ancient Ligurian affiliation, the Sicani's language is the earliest recorded stratum in Sicily. More at Sicani. Also compare Ancient Greek Σικελός (Sikelós). Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|Σικᾰνοί}} Ancient Greek Σικᾰνοί (Sikănoí), {{der|la|ine}} Indo-European, {{unc|la|nocap=1}} uncertain, {{der|la|xlg|-}} Ancient Ligurian, {{cog|grc|Σικελός}} Ancient Greek Σικελός (Sikelós) Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Sicānī<2>|g=m}} Sicānī m pl (genitive Sicānōrum); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Sicānī<2>}} Forms: Sicānī [canonical, masculine, plural], Sicānōrum [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Sicānī [nominative, plural], Sicānōrum [genitive, plural], Sicānīs [dative, plural], Sicānōs [accusative, plural], Sicānīs [ablative, plural], Sicānī [plural, vocative]
  1. an ancient tribe of Sicily, which dwelt east of the Elymi and west of the Siculi Tags: declension-2 Related terms: Sīcania, Sīcanius, Sīcanis, Sicānus
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.