landica

Latin

Etymology

Probably for *glandīca, from glāns (“acorn”) +‎ -īcus.^[1]^[2] Less probably related to lateō (“to be concealed”). Sense 2 and 3 seem to have something to do with a semantic parallel to ἐσχάρα (eskhára),^[3] which is affirmed by the gloss landīca – εσχαρίδι<ο>ν.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫanˈdiː.ka]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lanˈdiː.ka]

Noun

landīca f (genitive landīcae); first declension

(vulgar slang, anatomy) clitoris
Synonym: crista
- c. 100 CE, anonymous, Carmina Priapea 78 (Choliambic meter):
  At dī deaeque dentibus tuīs ēscam
  negent, amīcae cunnilinge vīcīnae,
  per quem puella fortis ante nec mendāx
  et quae solēbat impigrō celer passū
  ad nōs venīre, nunc misella landīcae
  vix posse jūrat ambulāre prae fossīs.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 41 BCE, anonymous, Inscription on a leaden sling-bullet (CIL XI 6721):
  PETO [LA]NDICAM FVLVIAE
  I aim for Fulvia's clit
(Late Latin) gridiron
Synonym: crāticula
(Late Latin) censer
Synonym: tūribulum

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	landīca	landīcae
genitive	landīcae	landīcārum
dative	landīcae	landīcīs
accusative	landīcam	landīcās
ablative	landīcā	landīcīs
vocative	landīca	landīcae

Derived terms

landīcōsus

Descendants

Old French: landie
Romanian: lindic

References

“landica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"landica", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“landica”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
landica in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

^ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “landica”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 758
^ Edwin W. Fay (1907): Greek and Latin Word Studies. In: The Classical Quarterly 1/1, pp. 13-14
^ “ἐσχάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

[1] Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “landica”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 758

[2] Edwin W. Fay (1907): Greek and Latin Word Studies. In: The Classical Quarterly 1/1, pp. 13-14

[3] “ἐσχάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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