pigacia
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom French pigache (“kind of hoe, kind of hoofprint, kind of shoe”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /piˈɡa.ki.a/, [pɪˈɡäkiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piˈɡa.t͡ʃi.a/, [piˈɡäːt͡ʃiä]
Noun
editpigacia f (genitive pigaciae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin, historical) pigache, an 11th–13th century style of footwear with elongated and pointed toes.
- c. 1140, Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Book VIII, Ch. 10:
- Ipse nimirum quia pedes habebat deformes, instituit sibi fieri longos et in summitate acutissimos subtolares ita ut operiret pedes, et eorum celaret tubera quae vulgo vocantur uniones... Unde sutores in calciamentis quasi caudas scorpionum quas vulgo pigacias appellant faciunt...
- As one might expect since he had deformed feet, [[[w:Fulk le Rechin|Fulk the Rude]]] ordered shoes made for himself that were long and pointy at the end to hide his feet and conceal the swollen growths that are called bunions in the common tongue... whence shoemakers made scorpions' tails as it were in their footwear, which are called pigaches in the common tongue...
- c. 1140, Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Book VIII, Ch. 10:
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pigacia | pigaciae |
Genitive | pigaciae | pigaciārum |
Dative | pigaciae | pigaciīs |
Accusative | pigaciam | pigaciās |
Ablative | pigaciā | pigaciīs |
Vocative | pigacia | pigaciae |