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English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin, from Latin plicare (“to fold”)

Noun

plica (countable and uncountable, plural plicas or plicae)

1. A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
2. Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.

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3. (botany) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
4. (zoology) The bend of the wing of a bird.
5. (music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• icpal

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plica, a derivative of plic? (“I fold”).

Noun

plica f (plural pliche)

1. (anatomy) plica, fold

Derived terms

• plicale

Related terms

• piegare
• plico

Latin

Verb

plic?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of plic?

References

• plica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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.