spica
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spica (plural spicas or spicae)
- (botany) A spike.
- (ornithology) A spur.
- A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.
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spica f (plural spiche)
- (poetic, archaic) Alternative form of spiga; ear (of corn); spike
- (regional) lavender
- Synonym: lavanda
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *speikā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”).
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspiː.ka/, [ˈs̠piːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspi.ka/, [ˈspiːkä]
Noun edit
spīca f (genitive spīcae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | spīca | spīcae |
| Genitive | spīcae | spīcārum |
| Dative | spīcae | spīcīs |
| Accusative | spīcam | spīcās |
| Ablative | spīcā | spīcīs |
| Vocative | spīca | spīcae |
Derived terms edit
- spīcilegium
- spīcārium (Late Latin)
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References edit
- “spica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spica 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)
- spica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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spica
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spica
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Etymology edit
From Latin spica (“spike, ear (of corn)”).
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Noun edit
spica f (plural spichi)