landica

Latin

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; proposed derivations include:

• From glans (“acorn”). Compare postīca (“rear, back”).
• From lambō (“I lick”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). If so, cognate with Latin lateō (“I am concealed”) and Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō, “to forget”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lanˈdiː.ka/, [ɫ̪än̪ˈd̪iːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lanˈdi.ka/, [län̪ˈd̪iːkä]

Noun

landīca f (genitive landīcae); first declension

1. (vulgar slang, anatomy) clitoris
2. gridiron
3. censer

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	landīca	landīcae
Genitive	landīcae	landīcārum
Dative	landīcae	landīcīs
Accusative	landīcam	landīcās
Ablative	landīcā	landīcīs
Vocative	landīca	landīcae

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’s 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.