sicarius

From sīca (“dagger”) + -ārius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [siːˈkaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [siˈkaː.ri.us]

sīcārius m (genitive sīcāriī or sīcārī); second declension

1. assassin, contract killer, murderer

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sicarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sicarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
    
• “sicarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sicarius”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin