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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μοτύκα (Motúka). Compare, for more, Mutina, Utica, Ustica, also Camicus and Inycus.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Motyca f sg (genitive Motycae); first declension
- A town in interior Sicily, situated between Syracusae and Camarina, now Modica
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Mŭtyca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Motyca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Mutyce in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.