Sica

Quick meaning: Sica is a noun meaning (historical) A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.

Meaning

(historical) A curved dagger used in Ancient Roman times, associated with the Thracian and Illyrians, gladiators, and Sicarii.

Example Sentences

We growled as short sica daggers flashed from the folds of many robes.

He had been honing the blades of sica daggers when Marie was brought in, work that could only be done in the secrecy of night. The huddle broke up and four Sicarii left, including the man with the nervous eyes.

[...] representation of a sheathed sickle on two fragments of a limestone plaque from Siristat (Figure 12). The plaque has not survived and only a sketch made by Jüthner records it. The publishers thought it showed a gladiatorial sica[…]

Word Forms

• sicas
• sicae

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sicaria, sicilienne, sarisa, siciliano, sigisbeo, siciliana.

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