ridica

Italian

Verb

ridica

1. inflection of ridire:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Ciardi, Icardi, darici, idrica, radici, ricadi

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. A doubtful connection with Ancient Greek ἐρείδω (ereídō, “I prop, support”) is sometimes suggested. Pokorny suggests a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyd- for both, which Beekes finds plausible for the Greek word.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈri.di.ka/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈri.di.ka/,

Noun

ridica f (genitive ridicae); first declension

1. (agriculture) A stake, a vine-prop

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ridicula

Descendants

• Galician: rodriga
• Romanian: ridica (possibly)
• Spanish: rodrigón

References

• “ridica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ridica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• rădica — archaic or regional
• râdica — obsolete
• aridica — obsolete

Etymology

Probably from Latin ērādīcāre, present active infinitive of ērādīcō (“root out, eradicate”) (and thus a doublet of the borrowing eradica). Another possibility is Late Latin or Vulgar Latin ridicāre (“tie a vine, e.g. in a vineyard”) (attested from a late gloss), from ridica (“stake; prop; vine-prop”); cf. also Spanish rodrigón. The semantic development in this case would pertain to how vines were set up in Romanian vineyards traditionally, using a trunk for the vines and stakes to support them; in the winter they would be lowered covered with a layer of earth to protect from the cold, but in spring would be raised again on the stakes or props. Less likely etymologies proposed include a Vulgar Latin *rigidicāre, from rigidus, or *adrecticāre. Compare Megleno-Romanian rădic, ardic, ardicare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri.diˈka/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ri‧di‧ca

Verb

a ridica (third-person singular present ridică, past participle ridicat) 1st conj.

1. to lift, elevate, raise, hoist, suspend

   Synonym: înălța

2. to increase
3. to uplift
4. (reflexive) to get up, stand up, arise

   Synonym: scula

5. (reflexive, formal, of amounts) to amount, add up to
   • 1990, Corneliu Vlad, “Păcatele teleevangheliștilor”, in Lumea ’90, Bucharest, page 122:

     Veniturile sale se estimează că s-au ridicat la 73,5 milioane dolari în 1986.

     His income is estimated to have added up to 73.5 million dollars in 1986.

6. (reflexive, rather archaic) to recover from a disease

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:se însănătoși

7. (transitive, chiefly obsolete) to heal, cure

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vindeca

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ridicare
• ridicătură

References

• ridica in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)