spica
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
spica f (plural spiche)
- (poetic, archaic) Alternative form of spiga; ear (of corn); spike
- (regional) lavender
- Synonym: lavanda
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Latin[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *speikā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspiː.ka/, [ˈs̠piːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspi.ka/, [ˈspiːkä]
Noun[edit]
spīca f (genitive spīcae); first declension
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
- spīcilegium
- spīcārium (Late Latin)
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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.
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Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
spica
Participle[edit]
spica
Sicilian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin spica (“spike, ear (of corn)”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
spica f (plural spichi)
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