mic

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mic"

Translingual

Etymology

From English Micmac, now usually spelled Mi'kmaq.

Symbol

mic

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Mi'kmaq.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mi'kmaq terms

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of microphone. Attested since 1961.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪk/
• Rhymes: -aɪk

Noun

mic (plural mics)

1. Alternative form of mike (“microphone”).
   • 1987, Eric B. & Rakim, I Know You Got Soul:

     Picture a mic, the stage is empty
     A beat like this might tempt me
     To pose, show my rings and my fat gold chain
     Grab the mic like I'm on Soul Train

Verb

mic (third-person singular simple present mics or mic's, present participle micing or mic'ing, simple past and past participle miced or mic'd or mic'ed)

1. Alternative form of mike.

   If we add the drum kit, we'll have to mic the orchestra.

   • 2002, Darren Brown with Jackie Bushman, Hunting Trophy Whitetails, page 167:

     At 11:00 am, Doug mics up with me on the radio, and I advise him to go back to camp to get a quad, that we have a monster down.

   • 2003, Sleazegrinder, Gigs from Hell: True Tales of Rock and Roll Gone Wrong, page 104:

     Imagine playing a venue the size of an aircraft hangar without your tiny amps miced up through the PA!

   • 2006, Sarah Davis with Dave Laing, The guerilla^[sic] guide to the music business, page 164:

     This lacks the gut-punch of miced-up bass but hopefully the player can rise to the challenge and give his or her take extra energy to make up for it.

   • 2007, Trev Wilkins, Access all areas: a real world guide to gigging and touring, page 101:

     Dynamics are used extensively for vocals, drums, and 'micing up' amplifiers such as guitar amps but they can be used for almost any application.

   • 2009, Francis Rumsey with Tim McCormick, Sound and Recording, page 51:

     but it is extremely useful in applications such as vocals, drums, and the micing-up of guitar amplifiers.

Derived terms

• eat the mic
• mic fright
• mic up

Etymology 2

Clipping of microfarad.

Noun

mic (plural mics)

1. (physics) A microfarad.

References

• “On Language: How Should ‘Microphone’ be Abbreviated?”, in New York Times, 29 July 2010

Anagrams

• CIM, CMI, ICM, IMC, MCI

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲic/

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of mic

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mic	mhic	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Romanian mic, Aromanian njic.

Adjective

mic

1. small

Antonyms

• mari

Middle Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲikʲ/

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Mutation of mic

radical	lenition	nasalization
mic also mmic after a proclitic ending in a vowel	mic pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maɪk], [mɪkː]

Noun

mic m

1. (slang) microphone

Old English

Pronoun

mic

1. (Mercian) alternative form of mec: me

Romanian

Alternative forms

• мик (mic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Supposedly from Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Doric Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic, Extreme Southern Italian nicu and miccu, Corsican micca, also Italian miccino. May also be related to Latin mīca (“crumb”); compare mică.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik/

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• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

mic m or n (feminine singular mică, plural mici)

1. little, small

   Antonym: mare

Declension

Declension of mic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	mic		mică	mici	mici
	definite	micul		mica	micii	micile
genitive- dative	indefinite	mic		mici	mici	mici
	definite	micului		micii	micilor	micilor

Derived terms

• micșora
• mici
• mititel
• micuț

Noun

mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)

1. little boy, child, toddler, tyke, baby

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mic	micul	mici	micii
genitive-dative	mic	micului	mici	micilor
vocative	micule		micilor

See also

• prunc, băiat

Noun

mic m (plural mici)

1. (often in the plural) a dish from Romanian cuisine, consisting of a grilled ground meat roll in cylindrical shape made from a mixture of beef, lamb and pork with spices

   Synonym: mititel

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /mĩʰkʲ/
• (Southern Hebridean, Skye) IPA^(key): /mĩçkʲ/

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Mutation of mic

radical	lenition
mic	mhic

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Swedish

Noun

mic c

1. (slang) microphone
   • 2006, Mattias Bylund, “Stråk-vals”, in Bylunds Blog‎^[1]:

     Funkar inte hans mic?

     Doesn't his mic work?

References

• korpus

Vietnamese

Etymology

Clipping of micrô.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mïk̟̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɨt̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɨt̚˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: mích

Noun

mic

1. microphone