sic

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• /sɪk/
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• rhymes with -ɪk
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• homophone: sick
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• homophone: Sikh (one pronunciation)
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• CMU ARPABET: S IH1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).

Variant of seek.

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: كَذَا (kaḏā) — thus, thus written
• Belarusian: так (tak) — thus, thus written
• Chinese Mandarin: 原文如此 (yuánwén rúcǐ) — thus, thus written
• Dutch: sic — thus, thus written
• Finnish: siten — thus, thus written
• Finnish: juuri näin — thus, thus written
• Finnish: sic — thus, thus written
• French: sic — thus, thus written
• German: sic — thus, thus written
• German: so — thus, thus written
• Greek: αυτολεξεί (aftolexeí) — thus, thus written
• Italian: sic — thus, thus written
• Japanese: ママ (mama) — thus, thus written
• Korean: 원문대로 (wonmundaero) — thus, thus written
• Persian: کذا (kazâ) — thus, thus written
• Polish: sic — thus, thus written
• Portuguese: sic — thus, thus written
• Russian: так (tak) — thus, thus written
• Serbo-Croatian: тако — thus, thus written
• Serbo-Croatian: tako — thus, thus written
• Spanish: sic — thus, thus written
• Swedish: sic — thus, thus written
• Swedish: så — thus, thus written
• Ukrainian: так (tak) — thus, thus written
• Catalan: aquissar — incite an attack by
• Catalan: acanissar — incite an attack by
• Catalan: abordar — incite an attack by
• Catalan: abuixar — incite an attack by
• Catalan: abornar — incite an attack by
• Catalan: amussar — incite an attack by
• Dutch: zetten — incite an attack by
• Dutch: aanzetten — incite an attack by
• Dutch: opjutten — incite an attack by
• Finnish: usuttaa — incite an attack by
• German: hetzen — incite an attack by
• Icelandic: siga — incite an attack by
• Icelandic: etja — incite an attack by
• Southern Kurdish: ھِشکەدان (hişkedan) — incite an attack by
• Navajo: bichʼįʼ yishʼá — incite an attack by
• Polish: szczuć — incite an attack by
• Polish: poszczuć — incite an attack by
• Polish: napuszczać — incite an attack by
• Polish: napuścić — incite an attack by
• Russian: нау́ськивать (naúsʹkivatʹ) — incite an attack by
• Russian: натра́вливать (natrávlivatʹ) — incite an attack by
• Russian: натрави́ть (natravítʹ) — incite an attack by
• Spanish: azuzar — incite an attack by
• Spanish: achuchar — incite an attack by
• Spanish: jalear — incite an attack by
• Spanish: aupar — incite an attack by
• Spanish: ajotar — incite an attack by
• Spanish: ahotar (disused) — incite an attack by
• Spanish: huchear — incite an attack by
• Spanish: chumbar — incite an attack by
• Turkish: (üzerine) salmak — incite an attack by
• Turkish: saldırtmak — incite an attack by
• Dutch: pakken — to chase; to attack; to set upon
• German: fassen — to chase; to attack; to set upon
• Italian: sguinzagliare — to chase; to attack; to set upon
• Navajo: bichʼįʼ dah diilyeed — to chase; to attack; to set upon
• Polish: napadać — to chase; to attack; to set upon
• Polish: napaść — to chase; to attack; to set upon
• Russian: спуска́ть (spuskátʹ) — to chase; to attack; to set upon