"Spica" meaning in All languages combined

See Spica on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Etymology: Latin spīca virginis "Virgo's ear of grain" Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|spīca}} Latin spīca Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Spica
  1. (astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Virgo; alpha (α) Virginis. Wikipedia link: Spica Translations (star): 角宿一 (gok³ sau³ jat¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 角宿一 (Jiǎosùyī) (Chinese Mandarin), Στάχυς (Stáchys) (Greek), Spica [masculine] (Irish), spīca virginis (Latin), Whiti-kaupeka (Maori), اسپر (espor) (Persian), بیژوبین (bi-žubin) (Persian), Спи́ка (Spíka) [feminine] (Russian), Searag [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic)

Proper name [Italian]

Etymology: From Latin spīca (“ear of grain”). Etymology templates: {{uder|it|la|spīca||ear of grain}} Latin spīca (“ear of grain”) Head templates: {{it-proper noun|f}} Spica f
  1. Spica Wikipedia link: it:Spica Tags: feminine

Proper name [Polish]

IPA: /ˈspi.t͡sa/ Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], Spica [nominative, singular], Spicy [genitive, singular], Spicy [dative, singular], Spicę [accusative, singular], Spicą [instrumental, singular], Spicy [locative, singular], Spico [singular, vocative]
Rhymes: -it͡sa Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin spīca virginis. Etymology templates: {{lbor|pl|la|spīca virginis}} Learned borrowing from Latin spīca virginis Head templates: {{pl-prop|f}} Spica f Inflection templates: {{pl-decl-noun-f|tantum=s}}
  1. (astronomy) Spica (blue-white giant star) Tags: feminine Synonyms: Kłos, Kłos Panny
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.