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Polish
Etymology
From ospa + -ica.
Pronunciation
Noun
ośpica f
- (Central Greater Poland) pustular disease in sheep
- (Central Greater Poland, in the plural) natural varicella
Further reading
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “ośpica”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 21
- “ośpica”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary wielkopolskiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 8, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, 1916, page 96