sicera

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῑ́κερᾰ (sī́kera), itself the Septuagint rendition of Hebrew שֵׁכָר (šēḵār), used to refer to strong drinks, from Proto-Semitic *šikar- (“alcoholic drink”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.ke.ra/, [ˈs̠iːkɛrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.t͡ʃe.ra/, [ˈsiːt͡ʃerä]

Noun

sīcera f (genitive sīcerae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) An intoxicating drink (possibly a form of cider)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sīcera	sīcerae
genitive	sīcerae	sīcerārum
dative	sīcerae	sīcerīs
accusative	sīceram	sīcerās
ablative	sīcerā	sīcerīs
vocative	sīcera	sīcerae

Descendants

• → Middle English: ciser, siser, cisar, seser, cyser, sicer, syser, cisere
  • → English: cyser
• Old French: cisdre, sidre
  • → Breton: sistr
  • French: cidre
    • → German: Cidre
    • → Polish: cydr
    • → Romanian: cidru
    • → Russian: сидр (sidr)
    • → Ukrainian: сидр (sydr)
  • → Middle Dutch: sider
    • Dutch: cider
  • → Middle English: sider, sedyr, cedyr, sydyr, cidre, sidre, syder, sydur, siþer, sythere, sydir, sidur, sithir, cyther, cyder
    • English: cider
      • → Bulgarian: са́йдер (sájder)
      • → Finnish: siideri
      • → Jersey Dutch: sâiter
      • → Japanese: サイダー (saidā)
      • → Korean: 사이다 (saida)
    • Scots: cedar (obsolete)
    • → Welsh: seidr
  • → Galician: sidra
  • → Spanish: sidra
    • → Catalan: sidra
    • → Tagalog: sidra
  • → Italian: sidro.

References

• “sicera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sicera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sicera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Jean Perrot, La linguistique, éditions « Que sais-je ? » n° 570, Introduction