mica

See also: mică and míca

English

A sheet of mica

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mīkə, IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkə/
• Rhymes: -aɪkə

Noun

mica (countable and uncountable, plural micas)

2. (mineralogy) Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

Translations

hydrous aluminosilicate minerals

• Bengali: অভ্র (obhro)
• Cheyenne: óova'e
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雲母／云母 (wan⁴ mou⁵), 云母 (wan⁴ mou⁵)

  Mandarin: 雲母／云母 (zh) (yúnmǔ), 云母 (zh) (yúnmǔ)

• Czech: slída f
• Dutch: mica (nl) n, glimmer (nl) n (uncountable) m (countable)
• Estonian: vilk
• Finnish: kiille (fi)
• French: mica (fr) m
• Galician: mica (gl) f
• German: Glimmer (de) m
• Greek: μαρμαρυγίας (el) m (marmarygías)
• Gujarati: અભ્રક (abhrak), અબરખ (abarakh)
• Hindi: अभ्रक (hi) (abhrak)
• Hungarian: csillám, ^{(please verify)} csillámpala (hu)
• Italian: mica (it) f
• Japanese: 雲母 (うんも, unmo, うんぼ, unbo, きらら, kirara, きら, kira), マイカ (maika)
• Kannada: ಅಭ್ರಕ (kn) (abhraka)
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• Kazakh: слюдалар (slüdalar)
• Korean: 운모 (ko) (unmo) (雲母 (ko))
• Lithuanian: žėrutis m
• Malayalam: അഭ്രം (ml) (abhraṁ)
• Marathi: अभ्रक (abhrak)
• Navajo: tsésǫʼ
• Newar: फिपू (phipū)
• Norwegian: glimmer (no)
• Persian: میکا (fa) (mikā)
• Polish: mika (pl) f, łyszczyk m
• Portuguese: mica (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਅਬਰਕ (pa) (abarak)
• Russian: слюда́ (ru) f (sljudá)
• Scottish Gaelic: mìoca f
• Slovene: sljuda (sl)
• Spanish: mica (es) f
• Tagalog: mika
• Telugu: అభ్రకము (te) (abhrakamu)
• Yakut: сүлүүдэ (sülüüde)

See also

• biotite
• lepidolite
• muscovite
• paragonite
• phlogopite

Further reading

• mica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -amic, ACMI, Maci, aMCI, amic, cami, cima, iMac

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Catalan

Etymology 1

From (compare Occitan mica), from Vulgar Latin *micca, variant of Latin mīca, from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmi.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmi.ka]

Noun

mica f (plural miques)

1. a bit, a small piece

Derived terms

• de mica en mica
• miqueta
• una mica
• una mica de

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

Noun

mica f (plural miques)

1. (mineralogy) mica

Further reading

• “mica” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

mica f (plural micas)

1. (mineralogy) mica

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

Noun

mica f (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) mica

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ka/

Etymology 1

From Latin mīca, from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”).

Noun

mica f (plural miche)

1. (archaic or literary) breadcrumb
2. (by extension) bit, morsel

   Synonym: minuzzolo

Related terms

• micella

Adverb

mica

1. (colloquial) not

   Mica male! ― Not bad!

2. (colloquial) hardly, you know

   Mica sono stupido

   I’m hardly stupid; I’m not stupid, you know

3. (colloquial) bit

   Non è mica cambiato ― It hasn't changed one bit

4. (colloquial) at all

   Non costa mica molto ― It is not at all expensive

5. (colloquial) by any chance

   Non hai mica trovato il mio portafoglio?

   Have you seen my wallet by any chance?

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mīca, the same source as the above.

Noun

mica f (plural miche)

1. (mineralogy) mica (mineral)

Anagrams

• cima

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”), related to Old English smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, tasteful”). More at smicker.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.ka/, [ˈmiːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ka/, [ˈmiːkä]

Noun

mīca f (genitive mīcae); first declension

1. crumb, morsel, grain
2. (New Latin, mineralogy) mica

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mīca	mīcae
Genitive	mīcae	mīcārum
Dative	mīcae	mīcīs
Accusative	mīcam	mīcās
Ablative	mīcā	mīcīs
Vocative	mīca	mīcae

Derived terms

• mīcārius
• mīcidus
• mīcula

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: mică
• Italian: mica
• Old French: mie
  • French: mie
• Old Galician-Portuguese: miga
  • Galician: miga
  • Portuguese: miga
• Old Spanish: miga
  • Spanish: miga
• → English: mica
• → French: mica
• → Galician: mica
• → Portuguese: mica
• → Spanish: mica
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *micca
  • Old French: miche
    • French: miche
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: mica
    • Occitan: mica
  • → Alemannic German: Miigge

References

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca. Compare the inherited doublet miga.

Noun

mica f (plural micas)

1. (mineralogy) mica (hydrous aluminosilicate mineral)

Related terms

• micela
• miga
• migalha

Verb

mica

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi.ka]

Adjective

mica

1. definite nominative feminine singular of mic
2. definite accusative feminine singular of mic

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca. Compare the inherited doublet miga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmika/ [ˈmi.ka]

Noun

mica f (plural micas)

1. (mineralogy) mica

Related terms

• micáceo
• miga, migaja