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urtica

See also: Urtica

Italian

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Noun

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urtica f (plural urtiche)

  1. Alternative form of ortica

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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Unknown. Ernout and Meillet rejects association with ūrō (“to burn”) as a folk etymology, since that verb etymologically has a stem ending in -s- and so should have yielded *ū̆stīca instead.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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urtīca f (genitive urtīcae); first declension

  1. stinging nettle
  2. sea nettle
  3. (figuratively) a (sexual) itch, prurience

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative urtīca urtīcae
Genitive urtīcae urtīcārum
Dative urtīcae urtīcīs
Accusative urtīcam urtīcās
Ablative urtīcā urtīcīs
Vocative urtīca urtīcae

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “urtica”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 755

Further reading

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  • “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.

Portuguese

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Verb

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urtica

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