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sicilicusnoun
A unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia.
sicilicusnoun
A diacritic, resembling a 180°-rotated 'C' (i.e., being similar in appearance to u27E8u27E9), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.
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Sicilicus
In Old Latin a sicilicus is a diacritical mark, ͗, like a laterally inverted C placed above a letter and evidently deriving its name from its shape like a little sickle. The ancient sources say that during the time of the Republic it was placed above a geminate consonant to indicate that the consonant counted twice, although there is hardly any epigraphic and paleographic evidence available from such an early time. When such geminate consonants began to be represented during classical times by writing the letter twice, the sicilicus naturally fell into disuse in this function, but continued to be used to indicate the doubling of vowels as an indication of length in the developed form of the apex. It has been suggested that Plautus alludes to the sicilicus in the prologue to Menaechmi. In Unicode, it is encoded as U+0357 ͗ combining right half ring above.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sicilicus in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sicilicus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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