See also: SIC, siç, sić , and šić

English [ edit ]

sic English Wikipedia has an article on: Wikipedia

Pronunciation [ edit ]

enPR: sĭk , IPA (key) : /sɪk/

, IPA : Audio (UK)

Audio (US)

Rhymes: -ɪk

Homophones: sick Sikh

Etymology 1 [ edit ]

From Latin sīc (“thus, so”).

Adverb [ edit ]

sic (not comparable)

Thus; thus written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source 1971 , H. E. Wilkie Young; Elie Khadouri[e], quoting William Taylor, “Narratives of Identity: The Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England”, in Middle Eastern Studies , volume 7, quoted in Mosul in 1909, , H. E. Wilkie Young; Elie Khadouri[e], quoting William Taylor, “Narratives of Identity: The Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England”, in, volume 7, quoted in Mosul in 1909, page 229 When it is all over they merge and go in a body to visit [...] the Telegraph Office – with plausible expressions of regret and excuses for the mob ‘which’ they say ‘is deplorably ignorant and will not be restrained when its feelings are strongly moved’ – sic , the fact being that the mob’s feelings will never be ‘moved’ unless it is by one of them.

2003 , Monika Fludernik, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction , Routledge, →ISBN , page 468: , Monika Fludernik,, page 468: Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’ Lingua 18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]

2006 , Christina Scull; Wayne G. Hammond, JRR Tolkien companion & guide , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN : , Christina Scull; Wayne G. Hammond,, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Joseph Wright, his predecessor in the chair, called him ‘a firstrate Scholar and a kind of man who will easily make friends’ at Oxford (quoted, sic , in E.M. Wright, The Life of Joseph Wright (1932), p. 483).

2010 , Paul Booth, Digital Fandom: New Media Studies , Peter Lang →ISBN, page 127 Jim’s Interests: General: Working out, hanging out at the local bars, expanding my mind, eating Tuna Sandwhiches...or so I’m told and poker... Television: ... this show that’s on Thuresday nights at 8 :30pm... I can’t place the name of it but it has this crazy interview style thing...[all sic ]

, Paul Booth, , Peter Lang →ISBN, page 127 2012, Milton J. Bates, The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed, Wisconsin Historical Society →ISBN, page 271 whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)

Usage notes [ edit ]

Sic is frequently used to indicate that an error or apparent error of spelling, grammar, or logic has been quoted faithfully; for instance, quoting the U.S. Constitution:

The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker ...

Sic is often set off from surrounding text by parentheses or brackets, which sometimes enclose additional notes, as:

1884, James Grant, Cassell’s old and new Edinburgh, page 99: This I may say of her, to which all that saw her will bear record, that her only countenance moved [sic, meaning that its expression alone was touching], although she had not spoken a word [ … ]

Because it is not an abbreviation, it does not require a following period.

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Verb [ edit ]

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

To mark with a bracketed sic.[1] E. Belfort Bax wrote “… the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates.”[1][2]

Etymology 2 [ edit ]

Variant of seek.

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sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

( transitive ) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. He sicced his dog on me! 2019, Merchant, Brian, “Click Here to Kill: The dark world of online murder markets”, in Harper’s Magazine ‎[1], volume 2020, number January: , Merchant, Brian, “Click Here to Kill: The dark world of online murder markets”, in, volume 2020, number January: I was interviewing the victims of a harebrained scheme to sic contract killers on an innocent woman ( transitive ) To set upon; to chase; to attack. Sic ’em, Mitzi.

Usage notes [ edit ]

The sense of “set upon” is most commonly used as an imperative, in a command to an animal.

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Dutch [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

From Latin sīc (“thus, so”).

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Audio

Adverb [ edit ]

sic

sic ( thus )

Usage notes [ edit ]

Same usage notes as in English apply.

French [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

From Latin sīc (“thus, so”).

Adverb [ edit ]

sic

sic ( thus )

Usage notes [ edit ]

Same usage notes as in English apply.

Further reading [ edit ]

“sic” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin [ edit ]

Alternative forms [ edit ]

sīce non-apocopated )

) seic standard in Republican spelling )

) seice

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Etymology [ edit ]

Regular apocope of sīce, from sī +‎ -ce, from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”) and Proto-Indo-European *ḱe- (“demonstrative particle”). See also components for cognates.

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sīc (not comparable)

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Portuguese [ edit ]

Adverb [ edit ]

sic (not comparable)

sic ( used to indicate that a quoted word has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text )

Scots [ edit ]

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Adjective [ edit ]

sic (not comparable)

Pronoun [ edit ]

sic

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Etymology [ edit ]

From Upper German Sitz.

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Noun [ edit ]

sȉc m (Cyrillic spelling си̏ц)

( regional ) seat ( of a vehicle )

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