bica
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From bico (“beak”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bica f (plural bicas)
- tip of a spinning top
- a local variety of sponge cake made with clarified butter, eggs, flour and sugar
- a low round piece of cornbread
- Synonym: petada
Verb edit
bica
- inflection of bicar:
References edit
- “bica” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “bica” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “bica” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “bica” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “bica” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Lombardic bīga (“pile, heap”); compare Alemannic German Biigi, Byge (“stack”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bica f (plural biche)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- bica in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ikɐ
- Hyphenation: bi‧ca
Etymology 1 edit
According to folk etymology, the coffee sense is an acronym of Beba Isto Com Açúcar (“drink this with sugar”).[1] This etymology appears to have come from a 1998 text, however, and the term most likely came about as a way to differentiate between machine coffee and coffeepot coffee.[2]
Noun edit
bica f (plural bicas)
- spout, water pipe
- (Portugal, chiefly Lisbon and Southern Portugal) espresso
- 2012, Abelaira Augusto, NEM SO MAS TAMBEM, Editorial Presença, →ISBN:
- Não me apetece — responde o miúdo. Peço um café(«Uma bica, sim?», mas porquê este inútil «sim»?), e o empregado, afastandose, trôpego, repete a meia voz:«Uma bica!».Talvez parabem memorizaro pedido. Quando regressar, pedirei ...
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- 2011, Maria F. Allen, The Routledge Portuguese Bilingual Dictionary (Revised 2014 Edition): Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese, Routledge, →ISBN, page 61:
- Vd: 'bica', 'galão', 'meia', = (EP) jargon for café. cafeicultor m coffee-grower. cafeína f caffeine. cafeteira f coffee pot. cafezal m coffee plantation. cafezinho m ( BR) small black coffee. cáfila f (de camelos) coffle; caravan;2 (fig) rabble, mob.
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- (Brazil, slang) illegal drug shop
- (Brazil) a type of strong kick with the tip of one's foot striking the adversary
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
bica
- inflection of bicar:
Further reading edit
- “bica” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “bica” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “bica” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
References edit
- ^ Leão, Tiago (), “Conheça a origem da bica e “beba isto com açúcar””, in (please provide the title of the work)[1], archived from the original on 2016-07-10
- ^ https://ciberduvidas.iscte-iul.pt/consultorio/perguntas/bica-novamente/20254