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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄλιξ (álix) ‘rice-wheat groat’.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
alica f (genitive alicae); first declension
- A form of wheat (either spelt or emmer)
- grits prepared from this grain
- A drink prepared from these grits
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “alica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alica 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)
- alica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “alica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 33.