English
Sillicus
From silly + -cus, jokingly modelled after Latin names ending in -us.
A compound of silly + -cus
Proto-Germanic *sēliz ‘happy’
Proto-West Germanic *sāli ‘happiness’
Proto-West Germanic *sālīg ‘blissful’
Old English sǣliġ ‘lucky’
Middle English seely
English silly
Today it means
name An archetypal character in the setting of a joke, typically portraited as naive and somewhat dull-witted.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Sillicus