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Yes. The word ancile is a Scrabble US word. The word ancile is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word ancile is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

ANCILE,INLACE,

5-letter words (14 found)

ALIEN,ALINE,ANCLE,ANILE,CLEAN,CLINE,ELAIN,ENIAC,ILEAC,INCEL,INCLE,LANCE,LIANE,LINAC,

4-letter words (25 found)

ACNE,AINE,ALEC,ANCE,ANIL,CAIN,CANE,CEIL,CIEL,CINE,CLAN,EINA,ELAN,ILEA,LACE,LAIC,LAIN,LANE,LEAN,LICE,LIEN,LINE,NAIL,NEAL,NICE,

3-letter words (19 found)

ACE,AIL,AIN,ALE,ANE,ANI,CAL,CAN,CEL,EAN,ICE,LAC,LEA,LEI,LIE,LIN,NAE,NIE,NIL,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AI,AL,AN,EA,EL,EN,IN,LA,LI,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 73 words from ancile according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ancile

ancile

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ancile (plural ancilia or anciles)

  1. (historical, Roman antiquity) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Anagrams

  • Celina, NELIAC, alcine, inlace

Italian

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

ancile m (plural ancili)

  1. the sacred shield of the Ancient Romans

Anagrams

  • Celani, Celina, acline, alcine, canile, cilena, lincea

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *amβikaidslis, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-. Compare ambi-, caedō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /anˈkiː.le/, [äŋˈkiːɫ̪ɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈt͡ʃi.le/, [än̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːle]

Noun

ancīle n (genitive ancīlis); third declension

  1. The sacred shield said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

The genitive plural can be also ancīliorum.

References

  • “ancile”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ancile”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ancile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “ancile”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ancile”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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