spica
See also: Spica
English
Etymology
Noun
spica (plural spicas or spicae)
- (botany) A spike.
- (ornithology) A spur.
- A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.
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Italian
Noun
spica f (plural spiche)
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
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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
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
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.
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Adjective
spica
Participle
spica
Sicilian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin spica (“spike, ear (of corn)”).
Pronunciation
Noun
spica f (plural spichi)
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