different between consonant vs sicilicus

English

Etymology

From Middle English consonant or consonaunt, from Old French consonant, from Latin c?nson?ns (“sounding with”), from the prefix con- (“with”) + the present participle son?ns (“sounding”), from son?re (“to sound”). The Latin is a calque of Ancient Greek ???????? (súmph?non).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?n's?n?nt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?.n?nt/
• (US) enPR: kän's(?)n?nt, IPA^(key): /?k?n.s?.n?nt/, /?k?ns.n?nt/

Noun

consonant (plural consonants)

1. (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
2. A letter representing the sound of a consonant.

Translations

Adjective

consonant (comparative more consonant, superlative most consonant)

1. Characterized by harmony or agreement.
   • 1710, William Beveridge, The true nature of the Christian church, the office of its ministers, and the means of grace administred by them explain'd. In twelve sermons

     Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.

   • 1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, "The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-Publican", in Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events

     Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.

   • 1946, United States Supreme Court, Pennekamp v. Florida 328 U.S. 331,334

     This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.

2. Having the same sound.
   • 1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae

     consonant words and syllables

3. (music) Harmonizing together; accordant.

   consonant tones; consonant chords

4. Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
   • 1813, Thomas Moore, Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag

     No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:consonant.

Antonyms

• disconsonant
• dissonant
• discordant

Related terms

• consonance
• consonantal

Translations

See also

• vowel
• semivowel
• Wikipedia article on consonants

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin consonans, attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.so?nant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.su?nan/
• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

consonant (masculine and feminine plural consonants)

1. consonant

Noun

consonant f (plural consonants)

1. consonant

Derived terms

• consonàntic

References

Further reading

• “consonant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “consonant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “consonant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kon.so.nant/, [?kõ?s??nän?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kon.so.nant/, [?k?ns?n?n?t?]

Verb

c?nsonant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of c?nson?

English

Etymology 1

From Latin.

Noun

sicilicus (plural sicilici)

1. (Roman measurements) A unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia.
   • 1830, Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, volume 1, page 182:

     Both the pounds were therefore divided alike into 15 ores, that is, ounces; the ores into 4 skyllings, the sicilici of the Romans, and the skyllings into 4 pence by the Saxons, while the Danes used the mark of 20 skyllings, and the skylling of 2 mancuses.

   • 1859, Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 1213:

     UNCIA (?????, ??????, ??????), the twelfth part of the As or Libra, is derived by Varro from unus, as being the unit of the divisions of the as (L. L. v. 171, Müller). It was subdivided into 2 semunciae, 3 duellae, 4 sicilici, 6 sextulae, 24 scrupula, and 144 siliquae.

Synonyms

• (Roman measurement): siclus

Etymology 2

From the Latin sicilicus, the diminutive form of sicilis (“sickle”), so named because of its falciformity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?s??l?k?s, IPA^(key): /s??s?l?k?s/

Noun

sicilicus (plural sicilici)

1. (Old Latin typography) A diacritic, resembling a 180°-rotated ‘C’ (i.e., being similar in appearance to ? ? ?), written atop a consonant to mark gemination, superseded in Classical Latin by doubling the letter representing the geminated consonant.
   • 1925, Sir John Edwin Sandys, A Companion to Latin Studies (3rd edition; Cambridge University Press), page 743:

     It is stated by grammarians that a sicilicus or laterally inverted ?, ?, was placed above a consonant which was to be regarded as a doubled letter.

See also

• sicilicus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from s?c?lis (“sickle”) +? -icus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /si??ki?.li.kus/, [s?i??ki?l?k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /si?t??i.li.kus/, [si?t??i?likus]

Noun

s?c?licus m (genitive s?c?lic?); second declension

1. a sicilicus (a unit of weight equal to one quarter of an uncia)
2. (by extension) any other units that are 1/48 of another unit of measurement
   1. one forty-eighth of a jugerum
   2. the forty-eight part of an hour
3. a quarter of an inch
4. (grammar) a comma
5. a sign designating the doubling of consonants

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• s?c?licula
• s?c?limenta
• s?c?li?
• s?c?lis

Descendants

• English: sicilicus

References

• sicilicus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sicilicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sicilicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sicilicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sicilicus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin