cilicio
Spanish, noun/θiˈliθjo/
cilicio is spelled C-I-L-I-C-I-O (7 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 109,730th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cilicio is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “cilice, hairshirt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Faja de cerdas o de cadenillas de hierro con puntas, ceñida al cuerpo junto a la carne, que para…”.
What does cilicio mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Cilician
noun
- 1
masculinecilice, hairshirt
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Saco o vestidura áspera de que usaban en lo antiguo para la penitencia. 2. Faja de cerdas o de cadenillas de hierro con puntas, ceñida al cuerpo junto a la carne, que para mortificación usan algunas personas.
adjective: 1. Perteneciente o relativo al antiguo pueblo que habitaba al sureste de la Tróade, frente al golfo de Adramitio, en Anatolia. 2. Nativo de Cilicia, también llamada Çukurova, región en Turquía.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cilicio
- cilicia feminine
- cilicios masculine plural
- cilicias feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cilicio?
- /θiˈliθjo/
- [θiˈli.θjo]
- /siˈlisjo/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cilicio in Spanish?
cilicio appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).