persica

See also: pérsica

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛr.si.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛrsika
• Hyphenation: pèr‧si‧ca

Etymology 1

From Latin persica (“peach”), compare also persico (“peach tree”). Doublet of pesca.

Noun

persica f (plural persiche)

1. (regional or literary) peach (fruit)

   Synonym: pesca

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

persica

1. feminine singular of persico

Further reading

• persica in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• persica in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• capresi, crespai, perisca, pesarci, piscerà, precisa, prescia, rapisce, ripesca, saperci, sciarpe, scipare, spiacer, sprecai

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.si.ka/, [ˈpɛrs̠ɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.si.ka/, [ˈpɛrsikä]

Etymology 1

From persicus, from Persae (“Persians”).

Noun

persica f (genitive persicae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) walnut

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	persica	persicae
Genitive	persicae	persicārum
Dative	persicae	persicīs
Accusative	persicam	persicās
Ablative	persicā	persicīs
Vocative	persica	persicae

Etymology 2

Inflected form of persicum (“peach”).

Noun

persica

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of persicum

Noun

persica

1. (Late Latin) peach (fruit and tree)

Related terms

• Persa
• Persae
• persicum
• persicus

Descendants

• → Albanian: pjeshkë (probably)
• Aromanian: chearsicã, chiarsicã, hearhicã, hearsicã, kearsicã
• Italian: persica, pesca
• Neapolitan: perzeca
• Occitan: persega
• → Old Danish: persik
  • Danish: fersken
    • → Faroese: ferska
    • → Icelandic: ferskja
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: fersken
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: fersken
• Old French: pesche, persche
  • Middle French: pesche
    • French: pêche
      • → Malagasy: paiso
  • Norman: pêche
  • Walloon: pexhî
  • → Middle English: peche
    • English: peach
      • → Abenaki: biches (from the plural peaches)
      • →? Arapaho: biisib
      • → Bengali: পীচ (pic) (probably)
      • → Malay: pic (probably)
      • →? Maori: pītiti
      • → Swahili: pichi (probably)
      • → Thai: พีช (píit)
  • → Irish: péitseog
  • → Manx: peitshag, pershagh
• Piedmontese: persi
• Romanian: piersică
• Sardinian: pélsica, pérsiga
• Sicilian: pèrsica
• → Swedish: persika
• → Proto-Slavic: *persky, *bersky, *porsky
  • South Slavic:
    • Bulgarian: пра́скова (práskova), пра́сква (práskva), пра́скъва (práskǎva), пра́скува (práskuva), пра́ска (práska), пра́сквя (práskvja), пра́ська (prásʹka), пра́скя (práskja), пра́скье (práskje), пра́сковье (práskovje), пра́скъ f (prásk)
    • Macedonian: праска (praska)
    • Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: бре̏сква, dialectally бра̏сква, пра̏сква, пра̏ска, бре̏ска, бри̏ска, бри̏сква

      Latin script: brȅskva, dialectally brȁskva, prȁskva, prȁska, brȅska, brȉska, brȉskva

    • Slovene: brẹ́skəv, dialectally brẹ̑skva
    • → Aromanian: prascã
    • → Hungarian: barack
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: břeskev, replaced by confusion with broskev
    • Polish: brzoskiew
      • ⇒ Polish: brzoskwinia
        • → Russian: броскви́на (broskvína), брускви́на (bruskvína)
    • Slovak: broskyňa, formerly dialectally broskva, broskev
    • Sorbian:

      Lower Sorbian: brjaschen, rjaschen, brjaskeẃ, brjasken (of which rjaschen prevails)

      Upper Sorbian: brěska f, brěšk m

References

• persica 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)