Motyca

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Latin

Alternative forms

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

  1. A town in interior Sicily, situated between Syracusae and Camarina, now Modica

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: Modica
  • Sicilian: Mòdica

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.