urtica

See also: Urtica

Interlingue

Noun

1. nettle

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Italian

Noun

urtica f (plural urtiche)

1. Variant of ortica.

Anagrams

• crauti, curati

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Latin

Etymology

From urere (“to burn”)

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	urtīca	urtīcae
Genitive	urtīcae	urtīcārum
Dative	urtīcae	urtīcīs
Accusative	urtīcam	urtīcās
Ablative	urtīcā	urtīcīs
Vocative	urtīca	urtīcae

Descendants

• Aromanian: urdzãcã, urdzicã
• Asturian: ortiga, urtiga
• Catalan: ortiga
• French: ortie
• Friulian: urtie
• Galician: ortiga, estruga
• Italian: ortica
• Piedmontese: urtija
• Portuguese: urtiga
• Romanian: urzică
• Sicilian: ardìcula, lurdica
• Spanish: ortega
• Translingual: Urtica
• Venetian: ortiga, oltriga, urtiga

References

• “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.