urtica

See also: Urtica

Italian edit

urtica f (plural urtiche)

From ūrō (“to burn”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

(Classical) IPA^(key): /uːrˈtiː.ka/, [uːrˈt̪iːkä] or IPA^(key): /urˈtiː.ka/, [ʊrˈt̪iːkä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /urˈti.ka/, [urˈt̪iːkä]

ū̆rtīca f (genitive ū̆rtīcae); first declension

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: urticã, urdzicã, urdzãcã, urdzeche
- Romanian: urzică
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: ortica; urtica (Tuscan and central dialects)
- Neapolitan: ardica, radica
- Sicilian: ardica, urdica ⇒ ardìcula
  Calabrese: ordica, lurdica, ardica
Padanian:
- Emilian: urtiga, ortiga
- Friulian: urtie
- Ligurian: òrtîga, ortîga, éurtîa
- Lombard: urtiga, urtic
- Piedmontese: urtija, urtia, aurtia, ortija, ortia
- Romagnol: urtiga
- Venetian: ortiga, oltriga, urtiga
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: ortie, ortia, orcha
- French: ortie
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese:
  Ansotano: xordiga
  
  Belsetán: ixordica
  
  Cheso: xordiga
  
  Chistabín: ixordica, ixordiga
  
  Panticuto: xordica, xordiga
  
  Ribagorçan: ixordiga, ixordica
- 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:
- Asturian: ortiga, urtiga
- Galician: ortiga ⇒ estruga
- Portuguese: urtiga, ortiga
- Spanish: ortiga
Borrowings:
- → Translingual: Urtica

“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.

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