spica

See also: Spica

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spica.

Noun

spica (plural spicas or spicae)

1. (botany) A spike.
2. (ornithology) A spur.
3. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.

Anagrams

• CISPA, PICAs, aspic, pacis, picas, scapi

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Italian

Noun

spica f (plural spiche)

1. (poetic) Alternative form of spiga; ear (of corn); spike
2. (regional) lavender

   Synonym: lavanda

Anagrams

• aspic, cispa, pasci, scapi

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Latin

Alternative forms

• spīcum
• spīcus

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspiː.ka/, [ˈs̠piːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspi.ka/, [ˈspiːkä]

Noun

spīca f (genitive spīcae); first declension

1. (of grain) A head, ear, spike

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	spīca	spīcae
Genitive	spīcae	spīcārum
Dative	spīcae	spīcīs
Accusative	spīcam	spīcās
Ablative	spīcā	spīcīs
Vocative	spīca	spīcae

Derived terms

• spīcilegium
• spīcārium (Late Latin)

Descendants

• Aromanian: schic
• Catalan: espiga
• Dalmatian: spaica
• French: épi
• Friulian: spi
• Italian: spiga

• Occitan: espic
• Portuguese: espiga
• Romanian: spic
• Romansch: spia, spigia, speia
• Sardinian: ipiga, ispiga, ispica, spiga, spica
• Sicilian: spica
• Spanish: espiga

References

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

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈspʲit͡sa]

Adjective

spica

1. nominative singular feminine of spicy

Participle

spica

1. nominative singular feminine of spicy

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Sicilian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin spica (“spike, ear (of corn)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɪka/
• Hyphenation: spi‧ca

Noun

spica f (plural spichi)

1. spike, ear