The Sicels (/ ˈsɪkəlz, ˈsɪsəlz / SIK-əlz, SISS-əlz; Latin: Sicelī or Siculī) were an Indo-European tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily, their namesake, during the Iron Age. They spoke the Siculian language.

The Sicels (or Sikels, from the Greek Sikeloi), though considered one of the three "indigenous" societies of Sicily (with the Sicanians and Elymians), were an Italic people who arrived several centuries before the Phoenicians and Greeks, probably between 1200 and 1000 BC (BCE), perhaps shortly after the arrival of the Elymians.

2020年12月8日 · There, in present-day Calabria, the Sikels became numerous and very powerful, to the point that one of their king, whose name was Italus /Italo, name that means ‘’Young Bull’’, took possession of the whole Enotria, but causing after his death the unavoiding fall into hatred of his people among the Enotrians, to the point that they had to flee ba...

Siculian (or Sicel) is an extinct Indo-European language spoken in central and eastern Sicily by the Sicels. It is attested in fewer than thirty inscriptions of eastern Sicily from the late 6th century to 4th century BCE, and in around twenty-five glosses from ancient writers. [1]

sī̆kel adj. Also sikkil, sekil, sekkul, seckel, secle. OE *sēocle, LOE sīcle. 1. (a) Ill, infirm, invalid; (b) of plants: diseased, feeble, drooping.

Sicel language, language spoken by the ancient Siculi (Sicels) in Italy and Sicily. The language is known from four inscriptions dating from the 3rd century bc and from several coins dating from the 6th and 5th centuries bc. After the Greek settlements in Sicily, the Siculi became Hellenized and substituted Greek for their original language.

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(a) A sickle for reaping grain, etc.; also fig.; setten ~ forth, to start the debate; (b) ~ bon, a customary service of tasks requiring a sickle; ~ iren, ?a sickle-shaped implement associated with a mill; ~ makere, one who makes sickles; (c) a sickle-shaped design; (d) a siege weapon consisting of a curved blade attached to a battering ram; also...

The Sikel language is the undeciphered language of the Sikel people, who Greek historians and authors such as Thucydides and Dionysius of Halicarnassus tell us lived on the island of Sicily before Greek colonization.

This paper provides a brief synthesis of the evidence and principal points of discussion concerning the indigenous languages of ancient Sicily. Traditionally, three indigenous languages (Sikel, Sikan, and Elymian) are identified in use in Sicily in