sice

See also: sicé

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪs/
• Rhymes: -aɪs

Etymology 1

Noun

sice (plural sices)

1. Alternative spelling of sais

Etymology 2

From Middle English sice or sis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French sis, sies. Doublet of six.

Alternative forms

• sise, size

Noun

sice (plural sices)

1. (dice games, obsolete) The number six in a game of dice.
   • 1680, Thomas Godwyn, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta, page 112:

     In their common game, the most fortunate throw is thought to have been three Sices […]

Coordinate terms

• ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque

Descendants

• → Japanese: サイス (saisu)

Translations

number six in a game of dice

• Bulgarian: шестица (на зар) f (šestica (na zar))
• Catalan: sena f
• Polish: syz m, zys (pl) m
• Portuguese: sena (pt) f
• Spanish: sena (es) f

Etymology 3

Verb

sice (third-person singular simple present sices, present participle sicing, simple past and past participle siced)

1. (District of Columbia, slang) To excite.
   • 2001, Robert L. Anderson, Finding Salliq:

     He was siced about going, and I could tell he seemed to be especially pressed about having a sidekick. And, best of all, admission was free with the passes he'd copped from some honey he met at lunch.

   • 2010 May 9, SaulReel, "I'm Siced" (song), in the video "SaulReel In Studio Performance Of I'm Siced" [rhymed with riced]:

     sice me up [...] and now you're feeling so excited [...] I'm siced

   • 2012, Eyone Williams, Secrets Never Die, DC Bookdiva Publications:

     "I got Jasmine's Range out the shop. It's just like new. I'ma let you hold it, okay?" A smile big as Texas spread across my face. I was siced like shit!

   • 2014 November 6, Tom Bayly, Coffee and a Cool Breeze: A Summer Journal, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

     [I'm] siced to not be at work and about to head out on a road trip. […] […] siced: Siced is one of my all-time favorite words. It means excited or happy about, or that you like something. You can be siced for something, you can sice something, or, you can just be siced as a general matter. I'm pretty sure siced is a local word. […] I've also seen it spelled syced, cised, ciced, sysed, and cysed.

Anagrams

• ECIS, ECSI, EICs, ESCI, ICEs, Ices, ices

Czech

Alternative forms

• sic

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech sice, sic, from Proto-Slavic *sice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪt͡sɛ]

Adverb

sice

1. admittedly

   sice... ale ― albeit...however

   Cesta byla sice hezká, ale příliš namáhavá. ― The trip was nice, but too exhausting.

Further reading

• “sice”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sice”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sice”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.ke/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ke/

Verb

sīce

1. inflection of sīcan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

Verb

sice

1. inflection of sīcan:
   1. second-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive