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Latin
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *móri.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Marīca f sg (genitive Marīcae); first declension
- (Roman mythology) A nymph, mother of Latinus
Declension
First-declension noun, singular only.
References
- “Marica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Marica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Màrija + -ca.
Proper noun
Mȁrica f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏рица)
- a female given name, Hypocoristic of Màrija
Declension
Etymology 2
Perhaps the same as above.
Proper noun
Mȁrica f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏рица)
- Maritsa (a river in Bulgaria)
Further reading
- “Marica”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024