landica

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Latin

Etymology

Probably for *glandīca, from glāns (“acorn”) +‎ -īcus.[1][2] Less probably related to lateō (“I am concealed”). Sense 2 and 3 seem to have something to do with a semantic parallel to ἐσχάρα (eskhára),[3] which is affirmed by the gloss landīca – εσχαρίδι<ο>ν.

Pronunciation

Noun

landīca f (genitive landīcae); first declension

  1. (vulgar slang, anatomy) clitoris
    • c. 100 CE, anonymous, Carmina Priapea 78, (Choliambic meter):
      At dī deaeque dentibus tuīs ēscam
      negent, amīcae cunnilinge vīcīnae,
      per quem puella fortis ante nec mendāx
      et quae solēbat impigrō celer passū
      ad nōs venīre, nunc misella landīcae
      vix posse jūrat ambulāre prae fossīs.
    • 41 BCE, anonymous, Inscription on a leaden sling-bullet , (CIL XI 6721):
      PETO NDICAM FVLVIAE
  2. (Late Latin) gridiron
    Synonym: crāticula
  3. (Late Latin) censer
    Synonym: tūribulum

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative landīca landīcae
genitive landīcae landīcārum
dative landīcae landīcīs
accusative landīcam landīcās
ablative landīcā landīcīs
vocative landīca landīcae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old French: landie
  • Romanian: lindic

References

  • “landica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • landica 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)
  • landica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • landica in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “landica”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 758
  2. ^ Edwin W. Fay (1907): Greek and Latin Word Studies. In: The Classical Quarterly 1/1, pp. 13-14
  3. ^ “ἐσχάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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