What does cilicium mean in Latin?

cilicium, a noun, means “rug or garment made from goat hair”.

What is the genitive of cilicium?

The genitive singular is ciliciī. cilicium is neuter, second declension.

cilicium, ciliciī — meaning & declension

Meaning

neuterrug or garment made from goat hair

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

textum ē pilīs caprārum

cilicium -ī (n) — in IVLIANVS III: Persia, ch. 7

Declension

declension
form	singular	plural
nominative	cilicium	cilicia
genitive	ciliciī cilicī	ciliciōrum
dative	ciliciō	ciliciīs
accusative	cilicium	cilicia
ablative	ciliciō	ciliciīs
vocative	cilicium	cilicia

Cĭlĭcĭum, Cĭlĭcĭus, and Cĭlissa, v. Cilicia.

Origins

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin cilicium From Cilicia (whence it comes from) + -ium.

Descendants

Catalancilici
Frenchcilice
Englishcilicefrom French cilice
GermanCilicium
Italiancilicio
Portuguesecilício
Spanishcilicio

In English words that came into English from cilicium

cilicecilicium
ciliciouscilicium

In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries

AntiquitiesCiliciumCilicium (δέρρις), a hair-cloth. The material of which the Greeks and Romans almost universally made this kind of cloth, was the hair of goats. The As…