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A sicilicus was an old Latin diacritical mark, (unicode: ͗), like a reversed C ((unicode:Ɔ))〔Cf. John Edwin Sandys, ''A Companion to Latin Studies'', Cambridge University Press 1910, §1099, p. 743, where specific instances are provided: ''C.I.L.'' v 1361, x 3743, xii 414.〕 placed above a letter and evidently deriving its name from its shape like a little sickle (which is ''sicilis'' in Latin). The ancient sources say〔Cf. Isidore ''Etymologiae'' 1.27.29 (''ubi litterae consonantes geminabantur, sicilicum superponebant, ut 'cella', 'serra', 'asseres': ueteres enim non duplicabant litteras, sed supra sicilicos adponebant; qua nota admonebatur lector geminandam esse litteram''); Nisus fr. 5 Mazzarino in Velius Longus ''de Orthographia'' Keil 7.80; Gaius Marius Victorinus ''Ars Grammatica'' 4.2 Mariotti.〕 that during the time of the Republic it was placed above a geminate consonant to indicate that the consonant counted twice, although there is hardly any epigraphic and paleographic evidence available from such an early time. When such geminate consonants began to be represented during classical times by writing the letter twice, the ''sicilicus'' naturally fell into disuse in this function, but continued to be used to indicate the doubling of vowels as an indication of length in the developed form of the ''apex''.〔''(Apex and Sicilicus )'', Revilo P. Oliver, The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 87, No. 2. (Apr., 1966), pp. 156-58. For a counter-view see Michael Fontaine, ('' ''Sicilicissitat'' (Plautus, ''Menaechmi'' 12) and Early Geminate Writing in Latin (with an Appendix on ''Men''. 13).'' ) ''Mnemosyne'', Volume 59, Number 1 (2006) pp. 104-5.〕 It has been suggested that Plautus alludes to the sicilicus in the prologue to Menaechmi.〔Michael Fontaine, ('' ''Sicilicissitat'' (Plautus, ''Menaechmi'' 12) and Early Geminate Writing in Latin (with an Appendix on ''Men''. 13).'' ) ''Mnemosyne'', Volume 59, Number 1 (2006) pp. 95-110.〕 In Unicode, it is encoded as . ==See also== * Open O, although this is a full letter, and not a diacritic placed above a letter * Antisigma, although this is a full letter, and not a diacritic placed above a letter * Apex (diacritic), used for long vowels instead of long consonants * Apostrophe, whose shape is derived from it * Comma (punctuation), whose shape is similar * Latin spelling and pronunciation 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sicilicus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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