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Sicario (Spanish for 'contract killer') derives from the Latin for "knife", and as Sicarii was the name of a 1st-century Jewish resistance group. The Spanish and Italian derived term, meaning a hitman, may refer to: Sicario 77, vivo o morto (in Italian), in English Killer 77, Alive or Dead, was a 1966 Italian/Spanish spy film
In the Koine Greek of Josephus the term σικάριοι sikarioi was used. In Latin, Sicarii is the plural form of Sicarius "dagger-man", "sickle-man". [4] Sica, possibly from Proto-Albanian *tsikā (whence Albanian thika, "knife"), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- ("to sharpen") possibly via Illyrian.
Sicario is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Taylor Sheridan in his screenwriting debut and starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin. The film follows a principled FBI special agent who is enlisted by a government task force to bring down the leader of a powerful and brutal Mexican drug ...
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (also known as Sicario 2: Soldado or simply Soldado) is a 2018 American crime thriller film [5] directed by Stefano Sollima and written by Taylor Sheridan. A sequel to 2015's Sicario , the film features Benicio del Toro , Josh Brolin , Jeffrey Donovan , and Raoul Trujillo reprising their roles, with Isabela Moner ...
The Sicarii were a self-defense splinter group of Hebrew zealots who opposed the Roman occupation of Judea in the decades preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. ...
Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. [1] It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise.
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera (born August 27, 1965), also known as "La Quinta" (Colombian slang for "the fat girl", a childhood nickname), [1] is a former sicario (hitman; paid assassin) for the Colombian Medellín Cartel, a prominent drug trafficking enterprise in Colombia in the late 1980s and early
Sicarii claimed responsibility for multiple attacks on leftist Jews and Palestinians. These included committing arson of apartments and cars owned by left-wing public figures; setting off a bomb near the home of a surgeon who had transplanted the heart of an IDF soldier into an East Jerusalem Arab; and the uprooting of trees along the Avenue of Righteous Gentiles at the Yad Vashem Holocaust ...