licium

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; could be a loan from a non-Indo-European language.

Noun

līcium n (genitive līciī or līcī); second declension

1. loop in the texture woven, through which the basic fabric is pulled
2. thrum, leash
3. thread

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	līcium	līcia
genitive	līciī līcī1	līciōrum
dative	līciō	līciīs
accusative	līcium	līcia
ablative	līciō	līciīs
vocative	līcium	līcia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• bilīx
• trilīx

Descendants

• Aragonese: liza
• Aromanian: ljitsã
• Catalan: lliç
• French: lice, lisse
• Italian: liccio
• Occitan: liça, lissa
• Portuguese: liço, liça
• Romanian: iță
• Spanish: lizo

Further reading

• “licium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “licium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• licium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.