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English

Etymology

Via Spanish paca and Portuguese paca, from Guaraní paka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæk?/
• Rhymes: -æk?

Noun

paca (plural pacas)

1. Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides.

Derived terms

• lowland paca (Cuniculus paca)
• mountain paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii)

Synonyms

• gibnut (Belize)
• labba (Guyana)
• royal rat

Translations

See also

• Cuniculus hernandezi
• paca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AACP, ACPA, APAC, APCA, CAAP, CAPA, PAAc, capa

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ka/

Verb

p?ca

1. (transitive) to wash

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 244
• Campbell, R. Joe (1997) , “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2011, retrieved 17 June 2007
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 182
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 228

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pat?sa/
• Hyphenation: pa?ca
• Rhymes: -at?sa

Adjective

paca (accusative singular pacan, plural pacaj, accusative plural pacajn)

1. peaceful, not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil
2. peaceful, motionless and calm

Derived terms

• pacema

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?t?s?]
• Hyphenation: pa?ca
• Rhymes: -t?s?

Noun

paca (plural pacák)

1. (informal) inkspot

Declension

Synonyms

• tintafolt
• tintapaca

Derived terms

• pacáz
• tintapaca

Further reading

• paca in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Alternative forms

• puca (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English pakke, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ak?/

Noun

paca m (genitive singular paca, nominative plural pacaí)

1. pack (bundle to be carried)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "paca" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “paca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “paca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology 1

Via Spanish paca, from Guaraní paka.

Noun

paca m (invariable)

1. (zoology) paca

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

paca

1. inflection of pacare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• capa

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?.ka?/, [?pä?kä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pa.ka/, [?p??k?]

Verb

p?c?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of p?c?

Pali

Alternative forms

Verb

paca

1. inflection of pacati (“to cook”):
   1. second-person singular imperative active
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect active

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa.t?sa/

Etymology 1

Noun

paca f

1. trowel, smoother, skimmer (tool for applying a smooth layer of mortar, plaster, etc.)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

paca m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of pac

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

paca

1. third-person singular present of paca?

Further reading

• paca in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• paca in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Alternate form of pacas.

Adverb

paca (not comparable)

1. (Brazil, familiar) a lot; super

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?paka/, [?pa.ka]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French pacque.

Noun

paca f (plural pacas)

1. bale (bundle)

   Synonyms: fardo, lío

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

paca f (plural pacas)

1. female equivalent of paco (“police officer”)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Guaraní paka.

Noun

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (chiefly Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) paca (rodent of the genus Cuniculus)

   Synonyms: (Colombian Amazonia) boruga, (Panama) conejo pintado, (Colombia) guagua, (Ecuador) guanta, (Northwestern Colombia) guartinaja, (Bolivia) jochi pintado, (Venezuela, Colombian Llanos) lapa, (Peru) majaz, tepezcuintle, (Mexico, Central America) tepezcuinte, (Northeastern Colombia) tinajo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??k?/
• (US) enPR: p?k?, IPA^(key): /?pa?k?/
• Rhymes: -a?k?

Etymology 1

From Latin p?ca (“magpie, jay”), from the idea that magpies will eat almost anything.

Noun

pica (usually uncountable, plural picas)

1. (pathology) A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand.

   Synonyms: allotriophagy, chthonophagia, cittosis, geophagy

Translations

Further reading

• pica (disorder) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin p?ca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie (“disordered type”)). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.

Noun

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

1. (typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale 1989, p. 30:

     I had been at Baldwin's before dinner in consequence of a letter from him which showed me that, by using a pica instead of an English letter in printing my book, I might comprise it within such a number of sheets as a guinea-volume should contain […] .

2. (typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
3. (typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵?₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹?₆ in.

   Coordinate terms: cicero, em, en, point

4. (uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• pica (typography) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

Noun

pica (plural picas)

1. Archaic form of pika (“small lagomorph”).
   • 1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History (volume 3, page 190)

     Most travellers in the Himalaya are familiar with the pretty little Rodents, known as picas, tailless hares, or mouse-hares, which may be seen in the higher regions […]

Etymology 4

From Latin

Noun

pica (plural picas)

1. A magpie.

References

Anagrams

• ACPI, APIC, apic, capi, paci

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?pi.k?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pi.ka/

Etymology 1

Latin p?la (“mortar”), with an unexplained change from /l/ to /k/. Compare Spanish pila (“sink, font”).

Noun

pica f (plural piques)

1. bowl

2. sink

   Synonym: lavabo

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pica (“pike”).

Noun

pica f (plural piques)

1. (weaponry) pike
2. (card games) spade

Etymology 3

Latin p?ca (“magpie”)

Noun

pica f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) pica (disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances)

Etymology 4

Deverbal of picar

Noun

pica f (plural piques)

1. peak, summit

   Synonyms: pic, cim, cima

Etymology 5

From French pika, from an Evenki word.

Noun

pica f (plural piques)

1. pika (small, furry mammal)

Further reading

• “pica” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pica” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Noun

pica m (plural picas)

1. pipit
2. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

Verb

pica

1. third-person singular present indicative of comer
2. second-person singular imperative of comer

Italian

Noun

pica f (plural piche)

1. picacismo
2. magpie

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), whence also Latin p?cus (“woodpecker”). Romance forms in -e- might reflect a different etymon, such as the Umbrian peico (acc.sg.), where the product of /ei/'s monophthongisation coincided with the latin /?/. Cognate to Sanskrit ??? (piká, “cuckoo”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Swedish spett (“crowbar, skewer; kind of woodpecker”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pi?.ka/, [?pi?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.ka/, [?pi?k?]

Noun

p?ca f (genitive p?cae); first declension

1. magpie

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• p?cus

Descendants

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “p?ca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 80, page 420

Further reading

• pica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

pica f (4th declension)

1. pizza

Declension

Old Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pi?a.

Noun

pica f

1. fodder, forage

Portuguese

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pica f (plural picas)

1. (chiefly Brazil, slang) dick; prick; penis
2. (Portugal) jab (medical injection)
3. (Portugal, colloquial) energy; power

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pica

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of picar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of picar

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pic.

Noun

pica f (plural picas)

1. (Brazil, Internet slang) pic (short for picture, meaning image)

Romanian

Etymology

From pic. Compare also Aromanian chicu, chicare.

Verb

a pica (third-person singular present pic?, past participle picat) 1st conj.

1. (of a liquid) to drip

   Synonym: picura

2. (literally and figuratively) to fall

   Synonym: c?dea

3. to fail
4. to come unexpectedly

Conjugation

Derived terms

• pic?tur?

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Hypocoristic form derived from pízda (“cunt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??tsa/
• Hyphenation: pi?ca

Noun

píca f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (vulgar, hypocoristic) cunt, pussy

Declension

Etymology 2

From Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pîtsa/
• Hyphenation: pi?ca

Noun

p?ca f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. pizza

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pì?t?sa/, /pí?t?sa/

Noun

p?ca f

1. pizza

Inflection

Further reading

• “pica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pika/, [?pi.ka]

Noun

pica f (plural picas)

1. pike, lance
2. pick (digging tool)
3. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

Derived terms

• poner una pica en Flandes
• sacar picas

See also

Verb

pica

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of picar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of picar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of picar.