plica
See also: Plica
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin plicare (“to fold”)
Noun
plica (countable and uncountable, plural plicas or plicae)
- A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
- Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)
- (botany) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
- (zoology) The bend of the wing of a bird.
- (music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.
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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin plica, a derivative of plicō (“I fold”).
Noun
plica f (plural pliche)
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) plicā
References
- plica 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)
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