sic en · ADV · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.
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]
2010, Paul Booth, Digital Fandom: New Media Studies, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 127:In the posting, Matthews said he wished that, “more blacks [sic] people would look into ancient beliefs of pre Christian Africa.”
2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2021:When it is all over they merge and go in a body to visit [...] the Telegraph Office – with plausible expressions of regret and excuses for the mob ‘which’ they say ‘is deplorably ignorant and will not be restrained when its feelings are strongly moved’ – sic, the fact being that the mob’s feelings will never be ‘moved’ unless it is by one of them.
1909 January 28, H. E. Wilkie Young, “Notes on the City of Mosul” (despatch No. 4), in Foreign Office, volume 195, number 2308; quoted in Elie Khadouri[e], “Mosul in 1909”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 7, number 2, 1971, →JSTOR, page 229: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).
2006, Christina Scull with Wayne G. Hammond, JRR Tolkien companion & guide, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’ Lingua18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]
2003, Monika Fludernik, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction, Routledge, →ISBN, page 468:whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)
2012, Milton J. Bates, The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed, Wisconsin Historical Society, →ISBN, page 271:
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(broadly, not-comparable) Used in the manner of scare quotes
In the past few months, we in Upstate N.Y. have been subjected to fire bombings, firings, verbal and physical harassment, etc. The list goes on and on. These (sic) Christians are calling for a million marchers and may very well get that many.
1979 December 29, Vern Hall-Smith, “Fundamentalists March”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 5:
Relateds
sic semper tyrannis · sic transit gloria mundi · sic pro · sic passim
Translations (24)
fi juuri näin (thus, thus written) · ja ママ (thus, thus written) · ar كَذَا (thus, thus written) · es sic (thus, thus written) · sh тако (thus, thus written) · pl sic (thus, thus written) · sv så (thus, thus written) · fi siten (thus, thus written) · uk так (thus, thus written) · pt sic (thus, thus written) · be так (thus, thus written) · cmn 原文如此 (thus, thus written) · sh tako (thus, thus written) · fr sic (thus, thus written) · el αυτολεξεί (thus, thus written) · de so (thus, thus written) · de sic (thus, thus written) · ko 원문대로 (thus, thus written) · ru так (thus, thus written) · sv sic (thus, thus written) · fa کذا (thus, thus written) · nl sic (thus, thus written) · it sic (thus, thus written) · fi sic (thus, thus written)