mica

See also mică

English

A sheet of mica

Etymology

From Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mīkə, IPA: /ˈmaɪkə/, X-SAMPA: /"maIk@/
• Rhymes: -aɪkə

Noun

Wikipedia mica (countable and uncountable; plural micas)

1. Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

Translations

hydrous aluminosilicate minerals

• Bengali: অভ্র (bn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雲母 (cmn), 云母 (cmn) (yúnmǔ)

• Czech: slída (cs) f
• Estonian: vilk (et)
• Finnish: kiille (fi)
• French: mica (fr) m
• German: Glimmer (de) m

• Japanese: 雲母 (ja) (うんも, unmo), マイカ (ja) (maika)
• Navajo: tsésǫʼ
• Norwegian: glimmer (no)
• Russian: слюда (ru) (sljudá) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: mìoca (gd) f
• Slovene: sljuda (sl)
• Spanish: mica (es) f
• Telugu: అభ్రకము (te) (abhrakamu)

See also

• biotite
• lepidolite
• muscovite
• paragonite
• phlogopite

Anagrams

• amic
• cami
• iMac

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin mīca.

Noun

mica f (plural miques)

1. a bit, a small piece

Derived terms

• de mica en mica
• una mica
• una mica de

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Galician

Noun

mica f (usually uncountable)

1. mica

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mīca.

Adverb

mica

1. (colloquial) not

   Mica male! - Not bad!

2. (colloquial) hardly, you know

   Mica sono stupido - I’m hardly stupid; I’m not stupid, you know

Anagrams

• cima

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Latin

Noun

mīca (genitive mīcae); f, first declension

1. crumb, morsel, grain

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	mīca	mīcae
genitive	mīcae	mīcārum
dative	mīcae	mīcīs
accusative	mīcam	mīcās
ablative	mīcā	mīcīs
vocative	mīca	mīcae

Descendants

Catalan: mica English: mica, micelle French: mie, miche, micelle Italian: mica, micella

Portuguese: miga Romanian: mică Spanish: miga

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈmi.ka]

Adjective

mica

1. definite feminine singularnominative form of mic
2. definite feminine singularaccusative form of mic