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pica

See also: Pica, PICA, picá, pică, picā, picą, pića, piča, piça, and píča

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Latin pīca (“jay; magpie”) (from the idea that magpies will eat almost anything), from Proto-Italic *peikā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“magpie; woodpecker”). Doublet of pie.

NounEdit

pica (usually uncountable, plural picas)

  2. (pathology) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
    Synonyms: allotriophagy, chthonophagia, cittosis, geophagy, (obsolete, rare) pique
    • 1986, George S Baroff, Mental retardation: nature, cause, and management:
      The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.
TranslationsEdit

Further readingEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie (“disordered type”)). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.[1]

NounEdit

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

  1. (typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
    • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale 1989, p. 30:
      I had been at Baldwin's before dinner in consequence of a letter from him which showed me that, by using a pica instead of an English letter in printing my book, I might comprise it within such a number of sheets as a guinea-volume should contain […] .
  2. (typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
  3. (typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially 35⁄83 cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) 1⁄6 in.
    Coordinate terms: cicero, em, en, point
  4. (uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
12 Didot-point type — see cicero

Further readingEdit

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

pica (plural picas)

  1. Archaic form of pika (“small lagomorph”).
    • 1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History (volume 3, page 190)
      Most travellers in the Himalaya are familiar with the pretty little Rodents, known as picas, tailless hares, or mouse-hares, which may be seen in the higher regions […]

Etymology 4Edit

From Latin.

NounEdit

pica (plural picas)

  1. A magpie.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "pica, n.1" & "pica, n.2". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2006.

AnagramsEdit

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Latin pīla (“mortar”), with an unexplained change from /l/ to /k/. Compare Spanish pila (“sink, font”).

NounEdit

pica f (plural piques)

  1. bowl
    pica beneitera ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. sink
    Synonym: lavabo
    de mica en mica s'omple la pica (proverb) ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • 2006, Sergi Pàmies, “Com dues gotes d'aigua”, in Si menges una llimona sense fer ganyotes:
      Quan neix, la gota encara no sap que d'aquí a dos segons s'escalfarà contra la pica de la cuina.
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Spanish pica (“pike”).

NounEdit

pica f (plural piques)

  1. (weaponry) pike
  2. (card games) spade

Etymology 3Edit

Latin pīca (“magpie”)

NounEdit

pica f (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) pica (disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances)

Etymology 4Edit

Deverbal from picar

NounEdit

pica f (plural piques)

  1. peak, summit
    Synonyms: pic, cim, cima

Etymology 5Edit

From French pika, from an Evenki word.

NounEdit

pica f (plural piques)

  1. pika (small, furry mammal)

Further readingEdit

GalicianEdit

 
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NounEdit

pica m (plural picas)

  1. pipit
  2. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

VerbEdit

pica

  1. third-person singular present indicative of comer
  2. second-person singular imperative of comer

ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Syllabification: pì‧ca

NounEdit

pica f (plural piche)

  1. picacismo
  2. magpie

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *peikā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), whence also Latin pīcus (“woodpecker”).

Romance forms in -e- might reflect a different etymon, such as the Umbrian peico (acc.sg.), where the product of /ei/'s monophthongisation coincided with the latin /ē/. Cognate to Sanskrit पिक (piká, “cuckoo”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Swedish spett (“crowbar, skewer; kind of woodpecker”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pīca f (genitive pīcae); first declension

  1. magpie

DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pīca pīcae
Genitive pīcae pīcārum
Dative pīcae pīcīs
Accusative pīcam pīcās
Ablative pīcā pīcīs
Vocative pīca pīcae

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pēca (dialectal or from Sabellic)
  • Catalan: piga (“freckle”)
  • Italian: pica
  • ⇒ Norman: piêté
  • Occitan: piga
  • ⇒ Occitan: pigal, pigalha (“freckle”), pigasat (“pied, spotted, variegated”)
  • Old French: pie
  • Sardinian: piga (Logudorian)
  • Sicilian: pica
  • ⇒ Spanish: picaza (crossed with Germanic *agattjā (“magpie”))
  • → Basque: mika
  • → Breton: pig
  • → Catalan: pica
  • → English: pica
  • → Esperanto: pigo
  • → Ido: pigo
  • →? Scottish Gaelic: pioghaid

ReferencesEdit

Further readingEdit

  • “pica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pica 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)

LatvianEdit

 
pica

EtymologyEdit

From Italian pizza.

NounEdit

pica f (4th declension)

  1. pizza

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pica (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) pica picas
accusative (akuzatīvs) picu picas
genitive (ģenitīvs) picas picu
dative (datīvs) picai picām
instrumental (instrumentālis) picu picām
locative (lokatīvs) picā picās
vocative (vokatīvs) pica picas

Old PolishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *piťa.

NounEdit

pica f

  1. fodder, forage
    Synonym: obrok
Derived termsEdit
verb
DescendantsEdit
  • Polish: pica (obsolete)

Further readingEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic.

NounEdit

pica f

  1. vulva
DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old Polish pica (“fodder, food, forage”), from Proto-Slavic *piťa.

NounEdit

pica f

  1. (obsolete) fodder, forage
    Synonyms: furaż, pasza
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pica
singular plural
nominative pica pice
genitive picy pic
dative picy picom
accusative picę pice
instrumental picą picami
locative picy picach
vocative pico pice
Derived termsEdit
noun
verb

Etymology 2Edit

Inherited from Old Polish pica (“vulva”), from Proto-Slavic.

NounEdit

pica f (diminutive piczka)

  1. (vulgar) cunt, pussy (female genitalia)
    Synonyms: cipa, pizda, psiocha
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pica
singular plural
nominative pica pice
genitive picy pic
dative picy picom
accusative picę pice
instrumental picą picami
locative picy picach
vocative pico pice

Further readingEdit

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Back-formation from picar

NounEdit

pica f (plural picas)

  1. (Brazil, slang) dick; prick; penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
  2. (Portugal, childish) jab (medical injection)
    Synonym: vacina
  3. (Portugal, colloquial) energy; power
    Já estou com a pica toda. ― I'm full of energy.
  4. (Portugal, colloquial) enthusiasm, will
    Falta-me pica para continuar o projeto ― I'm lacking enthusiasm to continue with the project.

NounEdit

pica m (plural picas)

  1. (Portugal, informal) ticket inspector
    Synonym: revisor

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English pic.

NounEdit

pica f (plural picas)

  1. (Brazil, Internet slang) pic (short for picture, meaning image)

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

pica

  1. inflection of picar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From pic. Compare also Aromanian chicu, chicare.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

a pica (third-person singular present pică, past participle picat) 1st conj.

  1. (of a liquid) to drip
    Synonym: picura
  2. (literally and figuratively) to fall
    Synonym: cădea
  3. to fail
  4. to come unexpectedly

ConjugationEdit

    conjugation of pica (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a pica
gerund picând
past participle picat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present pic pici pică picăm picați pică
imperfect picam picai pica picam picați picau
simple perfect picai picași pică picarăm picarăți picară
pluperfect picasem picaseși picase picaserăm picaserăți picaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să pic să pici să pice să picăm să picați să pice
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative pică picați
negative nu pica nu picați

Derived termsEdit

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Hypocoristic form derived from pízda (“cunt”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

píca f (Cyrillic spelling пи́ца)

  1. (vulgar, hypocoristic) cunt, pussy
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pica
singular plural
nominative pica pice
genitive pice pica
dative pici picama
accusative picu pice
vocative pico pice
locative pici picama
instrumental picom picama

Etymology 2Edit

From Italian pizza.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pȉca f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏ца)

  1. pizza
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pica
singular plural
nominative pica pice
genitive pice pica
dative pici picama
accusative picu pice
vocative pico pice
locative pici picama
instrumental picom picama

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /pìːt͡sa/, /píːt͡sa/

NounEdit

pīca f

  1. pizza

InflectionEdit

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. píca
gen. sing. píce
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		píca píci píce
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		píce píc píc
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		píci pícama pícam
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		píco píci píce
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		píci pícah pícah
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		píco pícama pícami

Further readingEdit

  • “pica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From the verb picar.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpika/ [ˈpi.ka]
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Syllabification: pi‧ca

NounEdit

pica f (plural picas)

  1. pike, lance
  2. pick (digging tool)
  3. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text)
       
corazones diamantes picas tréboles

VerbEdit

pica

  1. inflection of picar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further readingEdit

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