sicut
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom sīc (“thus, so”) ut (“how, as”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsiː.kut/, [ˈs̠iːkʊt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.kut/, [ˈsiːkut̪]
Adverb
editsīcut (not comparable)
- as, just as, like
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations[1]:
- Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicut adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.
- Many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.
Derived terms
editConjunction
editsicut
References
edit- “sicut”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sicut”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sicut in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sicut in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- as if the victory were already won: sicut parta iam atque explorata victoria
- as if the victory were already won: sicut parta iam atque explorata victoria