piratica

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈra.ti.ka/
• Rhymes: -atika
• Hyphenation: pi‧rà‧ti‧ca

Adjective

piratica

1. feminine singular of piratico

Latin

Pronunciation

• pīrātica: (Classical) IPA^(key): /piːˈraː.ti.ka/, [piːˈräːt̪ɪkä]
• pīrātica: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈra.ti.ka/, [piˈräːt̪ikä]
• pīrāticā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /piːˈraː.ti.kaː/, [piːˈräːt̪ɪkäː]
• pīrāticā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piˈra.ti.ka/, [piˈräːt̪ikä]

Etymology 1

Derived from pīrāticus, perhaps via ellipsis of ars pīrātica. Compare mūsica, from Ancient Greek τέχνη μουσική (tékhnē mousikḗ, “art of the Muses”).

Noun

pīrātica f (genitive pīrāticae); first declension

1. piracy

   Synonym: pīrātia (medieval)

   pīrāticam facere, exercēre ― to commit piracy

   • 57 BCE, Cicero, Post Reditum in Senatu 11:

     Qui in magistratu nisi rogationem de piratico bello tulisset, profecto egestate et improbitate coactus piraticam ipse fecisset

     If he [Aulus Gabinius] hadn't brought that law through on the Pirate War [the Lex Gabinia], of course he himself would have committed piracy due to his own poverty and wickedness

   • c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.34:

     Quaedam tamen perdurant. Nam et quae uetera nunc sunt fuerunt olim noua, et quaedam sunt in usu perquam recentia, [...] 'Piraticam' quoque ut 'musicam' et 'fabricam' dici adhuc dubitabant mei praeceptores, 'fauorem' et 'urbanum' Cicero noua credit.

     Some [words] stay, however, as words that are now old were new long time ago, and there are also words that only very recently became in common use [...] My own teachers still hesitated to use pīrātica, mūsica, and fabrica, and Cicero thinks favor and urbānus are new.

   • c. 986 CE, Abbo of Fleury, Vita Sancti Eadmundi 5:

     maxime Dani, occidentis regionibus nimium vicini, quoniam circa eas piratycam exercent frequentibus latrociniis

     of these, most of all the Danish, who are too close to the Western regions as they commit piracy in the area, with frequent assaults

   • 1508, Erasmus, Adagia Chiliades.3:

     Cilices enim ob piraticam, quam exercebant, et assiduas hostium depraedationes, infames erant immanitatis et crudelitatis nomine.

     Due to piracy, which they committed, and their terrible pillaging of their enemies, the Cilicians were infamous for their brutality and cruelty.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

pīrātica

1. inflection of pīrāticus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

pīrāticā

1. ablative feminine singular of pīrāticus

Further reading

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “piratica”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC