Noun: sicle
| Singular | sicle |
| Plural | sicles |
Sample Sentences
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The holy mother brought five sicles and a pair of turtledoves to redeem the Lamb of God. [1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like sicle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French sicle, from Latin siclus, from Biblical Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (šɛ́qɛl). See: French Nouns '
sicle', Latin Nouns '
siclus'.