spica

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See also: Spica and Spicą

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spica.

Noun

spica (plural spicas or spicae)

  1. (botany) A spike.
  2. (ornithology) A spur.
  3. A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspi.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Hyphenation: spì‧ca

Noun

spica f (plural spiche)

  1. (poetic, archaic) Alternative form of spiga; ear (of corn); spike
  2. (regional) lavender
    Synonym: lavanda

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *speikā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”).

Pronunciation

Noun

spīca f (genitive spīcae); first declension

  1. (of grain) A head, ear, spike

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative spīca spīcae
Genitive spīcae spīcārum
Dative spīcae spīcīs
Accusative spīcam spīcās
Ablative spīcā spīcīs
Vocative spīca spīcae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “spica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “spica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • spica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • spica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

Adjective

spica

  1. feminine nominative singular of spicy

Participle

spica

  1. feminine nominative singular of spicy

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin spica (“spike, ear (of corn)”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspika/
  • Hyphenation: spi‧ca

Noun

spica f (plural spichi)

  1. spike, ear
  2. grow, become mature

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