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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀπικός (Opikós, “Oscan; barbarous”), from Ὀπῐκοί (Opikoí, “the Oscans”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
opicus (feminine opica, neuter opicum); first/second-declension adjective
- (derogatory) stupid, ignorant, barbarous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “opicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.