Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sic. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sic.
Definitions and meaning of sic
sic
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /sɪk/
Rhymes: -ɪk
Homophones: sick, Sikh (one pronunciation)
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latinsīc(“thus, so”).
Adverb
sic (not comparable)
Thus; thus written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.
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]
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
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.
Related terms
sic passim(used to indicate that the preceding word, phrase, or term is used in the same manner (or form) throughout the remainder of a text)
sic transit gloria mundi(fame is temporary; lit. “so passes the glory of the world”)
sic semper tyrannis(“thus always to tyrants”, a quotation attributed to Brutus at the assassination of Caesar, and shouted in reference by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln)
Translations
Verb
sic (third-person singular simple presentsics, present participlesiccing, simple past and past participlesicced)
To mark with a bracketed sic.
E. Belfort Bax wrote “… the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates.”
Etymology 2
Variant of seek.
Alternative forms
sick
Verb
sic (third-person singular simple presentsics, present participlesiccing, simple past and past participlesicced)
(transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
He sicced his dog on me!
(transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.
Sic ’em, Mitzi.
Usage notes
The sense of “set upon” is most commonly used as an imperative, in a command to an animal.
“sic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Alternative forms
sīce (non-apocopated)
seic (standard in Republican spelling)
seice
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /siːk/, [s̠iːk]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sik/, [sik]
Adverb
sīc (not comparable)
thus, so, like this, in this way
45 BC, Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, Book II.42
Ut ager, quamvis fertilis, sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus.
Just as the field, however fertile, without cultivation cannot be fruitful, likewise the soul without education.
as stated or as follows, to this effect
(as a correlative to ut, quōmodo etc.)
(with restrictive or conditional force, also with ut or nē)
in such a (good or bad) way, like that, so much
Synonyms
ita
hōc modō
ad hunc modum
in hunc modum
adeō
tam
tantopere
Descendants
Derived terms
sīcin(e)(“intensified interrogative sīc”)
sīcut(i)(“as”)
sīc trānsit glōria mundī
sīc semper tyrannīs
ut sīc dīcam(“so to speak”)
Related terms
References
sic in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
sic in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
sic in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
sic in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Portuguese
Adverb
sic (not comparable)
sic(used to indicate that a quoted word has been transcribed exactly as found in the source text)