nasica

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Italian

Noun

nasica m (invariable)

  1. proboscis monkey

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From nāsus (“nose”) +‎ -īca (“-ic: forming adjectives”).

Noun

nāsīca f (genitive nāsīcae); first declension

  1. a man or woman with a large or pointed nose

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nāsīca nāsīcae
Genitive nāsīcae nāsīcārum
Dative nāsīcae nāsīcīs
Accusative nāsīcam nāsīcās
Ablative nāsīcā nāsīcīs
Vocative nāsīca nāsīcae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Occitan: nasica
  • Sicilian: nasca

References

  • “nasica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nasica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “nasica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “nasica”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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