Sicel

Meanings

Noun

• A member of an Italic tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily during the Iron Age.

Proper Noun

• The unclassified, sparsely attested language of the Sicels.

Related

Similar words

• Siculi
• Siculian

Origin

• From Latin Siculi, from Ancient Greek Σικελός. See also Sicily.
• Greek historians including Thucydides suggested Siculus, a legendary king and son of Italus, as the progenitor of the Sicels.