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Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin procācia (“shamelessness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proˈka.t͡ʃa/
- Rhymes: -atʃa
- Hyphenation: pro‧cà‧cia
Noun
procacia f (plural procacie)
- (archaic, literary) impudence, insolence, shamelessness
- (by extension, literary) sexual provocativeness or attractiveness
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Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Form of procāx.
Adjective
procācia
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of procāx
Etymology 2
Derived from procāx (“shameless”) + -ia (“abstract noun-forming suffix”).
Noun
procācia f (genitive procāciae); first declension
- (Late Latin) shamelessness, impudence
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “procacia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- procacia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.