See also: Nasica

Italian edit

Noun edit

nasica m (invariable)

  1. proboscis monkey

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From nāsus (nose) +‎ -īca (-ic: forming adjectives).

Noun edit

nāsīca f (genitive nāsīcae); first declension

  1. a man or woman with a large or pointed nose

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nāsīca nāsīcae
Genitive nāsīcae nāsīcārum
Dative nāsīcae nāsīcīs
Accusative nāsīcam nāsīcās
Ablative nāsīcā nāsīcīs
Vocative nāsīca nāsīcae

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Occitan: nasica
  • Sicilian: nasca

References edit

  • nasica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nasica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • nasica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nasica”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray