urtica

See also: Urtica

Italian

Noun

urtica f (plural urtiche)

1. Alternative form of ortica

Anagrams

• crauti, curati

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Ernout and Meillet rejects association with ūrō (“to burn”) as a folk etymology, since that verb etymologically has a stem ending in -s- and so should have yielded *ū̆stīca instead.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /urˈtiː.ka/, [ʊrˈt̪iːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /urˈti.ka/, [urˈt̪iːkä]

Noun

urtīca f (genitive urtīcae); first declension

1. stinging nettle
2. sea nettle
3. (figuratively) a (sexual) itch, prurience

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	urtīca	urtīcae
genitive	urtīcae	urtīcārum
dative	urtīcae	urtīcīs
accusative	urtīcam	urtīcās
ablative	urtīcā	urtīcīs
vocative	urtīca	urtīcae

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: urticã, urdzicã, urdzãcã, urdzeche
  • Romanian: urzică
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ortica; urtica (Tuscan and central dialects)
  • Neapolitan: ardica, radica
  • Sicilian: ardica ⇒ ardìcula

    Calabrese: ordica, lurdica, ardica

• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italian:
    • Emilian: urtiga, ortiga
    • Ligurian: òrtîga, ortîga, éurtîa
    • Lombard: urtiga, urtic
    • Piedmontese: urtija, urtia, aurtia, ortija, ortia
    • Romagnol: urtiga
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: urtie
    • Ladin: ortìa
    • Romansch: urtia
  • Venetan: ortiga, oltriga, urtiga
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: ortie, ortia, orcha
  • French: ortie
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese:

    Ansotano: xordiga

    Belsetán: ixordica

    Cheso: xordiga

    Chistabín: ixordica, ixordiga

    Panticuto: xordica, xordiga

    Ribagorçan: ixordiga, ixordica

  • Catalan: ortiga
  • Occitan:

    Auvergnat: ortija, otrija, órtia

    Gascon: ortiga, ortica, autriga, hortiga, hortic

    Languedocien: ortiga, autriga, ortic

    Limousin: ortruja, autruja, ertruja, entruja

    Provençal: ortiga, aurtiga

    Vivaro-Alpine: úrtia, urtia, ortia, uèrtia

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: ortiga, urtiga
  • Galician: ortiga ⇒ estruga
  • Portuguese: urtiga, ortiga
  • Spanish: ortiga
• Borrowings:
  • → Translingual: Urtica

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Verb

urtica

1. inflection of urticar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative