sicure

Sicure is primarily a grammatical form in Italian rather than a stand-alone word with a broad English meaning. It is the feminine plural form of the adjective sicuro, which means safe, secure, or certain. The masculine form is sicuro, and the masculine plural is sicuri; the feminine singular is sicura. The lineage of sicuro goes back to Latin securus, meaning free from care or safe, and it is cognate with the English secure.

In usage, sicure agrees with feminine plural nouns. Examples include strade sicure (safe roads), informazioni sicure (reliable information), and decisioni sicure (certain or safe decisions). In Italian, adjectives typically follow the noun, so most common phrases are noun + sicure, though there can be stylistic cases where the adjective precedes the noun for emphasis.

Notes and variations: sicuri is the masculine plural form, used with masculine plural nouns (e.g., strade sicure is feminine; for masculine equivalents you would use something like autostrade sicuri in a constructed or less common context). Sicure by itself is not an independent term in Italian; it functions as part of a larger adjective-noun phrase. In English-language usage, sicure is rarely used except when discussing Italian grammar.

See also: sicuro, securità, affidabile.