Where does “sicar” come from?

sicar (Yucatec Maya) comes from Italian sicario, from Latin sīcārius, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

sicar (Yucatec Maya): to smoke tobacco leaves

Definitions

  1. to smoke tobacco leaves

Ancestry of “sicar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansicariohitman
2Latinsīcāriusassassin, contract killer, murderer
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from Latin sīcārius →