Siker

Alternative forms

• sicker
• siccer
• siccar

Origin

From Middle English siker ("secure, safe, stable, certain; gewiss, securely, safely, certainly"), from Old English sicer, sicor ("secure from, free from guilt and the punishment, safe, free from danger or harm, sure, certain, free from doubt, trustworthy"), from Proto-Germanic *sikuraz ("free, secure"), from Latin sēcūrus ("secure", literally without care). See secure. Cognate with Scots siker, seker ("safe, secure"), North Frisian sijcker ("sure, secure"), Dutch zeker ("certain, safe, secure"), German sicher ("sure, secure, confirmed"), Swedish säker ("secure, safe, sure"), Norwegian sikker ("secure").

Full definition of siker

Adjective

1. Alternative spelling of sicker: certain
2. Alternative spelling of sicker: secure
• 1847 (publication date), James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms from the Fourteenth Century Vol. II., pages 741 and 743:"That schip had a ful siker mast,And a sayl strong and large."

Derived terms

• sikerly
• sikerness

Adverb

1. Alternative spelling of sicker: certainly
2. Alternative spelling of sicker: securely

Anagrams

• keris, skier