urtica

See also: Urtica

Italian

Noun

urtica f (plural urtiche)

1. Alternative form of ortica

Anagrams

• crauti, curati

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Latin

Etymology

From ūrere (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /uːrˈtiː.ka/, [uːrˈt̪iːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /urˈti.ka/, [urˈt̪iːkä]

Noun

urtīca f (genitive urtīcae); first declension

1. stinging nettle
2. sea nettle
3. (figuratively) lustful desire, pruriency

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	urtīca	urtīcae
Genitive	urtīcae	urtīcārum
Dative	urtīcae	urtīcīs
Accusative	urtīcam	urtīcās
Ablative	urtīcā	urtīcīs
Vocative	urtīca	urtīcae

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: urdzãcã, urdzicã, urticã
  • Romanian: urzică
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ortica; urtica (Tuscan and central dialects)
  • Neapolitan: ardica, radica
  • Sicilian: ardica, urdica ⇒ ardìcula

    Calabrese: ordica, lurdica, ardica

• Padanian:
  • Emilian: urtiga, ortiga
  • Friulian: urtie
  • Ligurian: òrtîga, ortîga, éurtîa
  • Lombard: urtiga, urtic
  • Piedmontese: urtija, urtia, aurtia, ortija, ortia
  • Romagnol: urtiga
  • Venetian: ortiga, oltriga, urtiga
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: ortie, ortia, orcha
  • French: ortie
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese:

    Ansotano: xordiga

    Belsetán: ixordica

    Cheso: xordiga

    Chistabín: ixordica, ixordiga

    Panticuto: xordica, xordiga

    Ribagorçan: ixordiga, ixordica

  • Catalan: ortiga
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: ortija, otrija, órtia

    Gascon: ortiga, ortica, autriga, hortiga, hortic

    Languedocien: ortiga, autriga, ortic

    Limousin: ortruja, autruja, ertruja, entruja

    Provençal: ortiga, aurtiga

    Vivaro-Alpine: úrtia, urtia, ortia, uèrtia

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: ortiga, urtiga
  • Galician: ortiga ⇒ estruga
  • Portuguese: urtiga, ortiga
  • Spanish: ortiga
• Borrowings:
  • → Translingual: Urtica

References

• “urtica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “urtica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• urtica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.