tricae

English

Noun

tricae

1. plural of trica

Anagrams

• Raetic, Tracie, acrite

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Latin

Etymology

• Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *ter- (“to rub”), whence terō.

• some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn”)., whence Latin torqueō.

Noun

trīcae f pl (genitive trīcārum); first declension

1. (plural only) trifles, toys, trumpery
2. (plural only) hindrances, impediments

Declension

First-declension noun, plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	trīcae
Genitive	trīcārum
Dative	trīcīs
Accusative	trīcās
Ablative	trīcīs
Vocative	trīcae

Derived terms

• extrīcō
• intrīcō
• prōtrīcō
• trīcō
• trīcor

Descendants

• Portuguese: trica
• English: intricate

References

• “tricae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tricae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tricae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “extricate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.