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Italian
Noun
nasica m (invariable)
- proboscis monkey
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From nāsus (“nose”) + -īca (“-ic”).
Noun
nāsīca m or f (genitive nāsīcae); first declension
- a man or woman with a large or pointed nose
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
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