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): [ʊrˈtiː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [urˈtiː.ka]

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

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: urticã, urdzicã, urdzãcã, urdzeche
  • Romanian: urzică
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: urtica (Central, Tuscan), ortica
  • Neapolitan: ardica, radica
  • Sicilian: ardica, ⇒ ardìcula

    Calabrese: ordica, lurdiga, ardica

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

    Ansotano: xordiga

    Belsetán: ixordica

    Cheso: xordiga

    Chistabín: ixordica, ixordiga

    Panticuto: xordica, xordiga

    Ribagorçan: ixordiga, ixordica

  • Asturian: urtiga, ortiga
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • 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