siticen

Latin

Etymology

situs (“buried”, “interred”) +‎ -cen

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ti.ken/, [ˈs̠ɪt̪ɪkɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ti.t͡ʃen/, [ˈsiːt̪it͡ʃen]

Noun

siticen m (genitive siticinis); third declension

1. a musician who plays at funerals

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	siticen	siticinēs
genitive	siticinis	siticinum
dative	siticinī	siticinibus
accusative	siticinem	siticinēs
ablative	siticine	siticinibus
vocative	siticen	siticinēs

References

• “sĭtĭcĭnes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• SITICINES 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)
• sĭtĭcen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,449/3.
• “siticen” on page 1,774/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)