sicine

Latin

Alternative forms
  • sīcin (apocopated)
  • seicine (standard Republican spelling)
  • seicin

Etymology

From sīc +‎ -ne (“focusing particle”).

Adverb

sīcine (not comparable)

  1. (in emotionally charged questions) (is it) really so?, (is it) truly thus?

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