1764 Phil. Trans. LIV. 405This character on one of the Siculo-Punic medals.
1770 Ibid. LXI. 96The ancient Siculo-Punic, and Siculo-Phœnician, characters.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 639The true Siculo-Punic coins, that is, those actually struck by the Carthaginians in Sicily.
1939 Burlington Mag. Oct. 171/1Twelfth-century Siculo-Arabic combs and croziers.
1966 Economist 2 July 51/1 It revived with the help of the Siculo-American gangsters employed to ease the Allied landings in Sicily. [ sc. the Mafia]
1974 K. Clark Another Part of Wood iii. 115Leigh Ashton..had a good eye for art of all kinds, but what he really loved was a small fragment of Sassanian silk, a Persian pot or a Siculo-Arabic ivory.
ORIGIN: formed as Siculan + -o- .
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- Sicilian 1987, María Rosa Menocal, The Arabic role in medieval literary history (page 133)
- […] much Siculo-Arabic poetry is clearly lost, perhaps irremediably […]