"spica" meaning in Latin

See spica in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈspiː.ka/ [Classical], [ˈs̠piːkä] [Classical], /ˈspi.ka/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈspiːkä] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Proto-Italic *speikā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*spey-}}, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*speikā}} Proto-Italic *speikā, {{der|la|ine-pro|*spey-||sharp; sharp stick}} Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”) Head templates: {{la-noun|spīca<1>}} spīca f (genitive spīcae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|spīca<1>}} Forms: spīca [canonical, feminine], spīcae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], spīca [nominative, singular], spīcae [nominative, plural], spīcae [genitive, singular], spīcārum [genitive, plural], spīcae [dative, singular], spīcīs [dative, plural], spīcam [accusative, singular], spīcās [accusative, plural], spīcā [ablative, singular], spīcīs [ablative, plural], spīca [singular, vocative], spīcae [plural, vocative]
  1. (of grain) A head, ear, spike Tags: declension-1 Categories (lifeform): Grains Synonyms: spīcum, spīcus Derived forms: spīcilegium, spīcārium [Late-Latin]
    Sense id: en-spica-la-noun-Oncr~VvQ Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension

Download JSON data for spica meaning in Latin (5.4kB)

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    },
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        "genitive"
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        "table-tags"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "source": "declension",
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        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Grains",
          "orig": "la:Grains",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Grasses",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Commelinids",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Plants",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
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        }
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        {
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        }
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        "A head, ear, spike"
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      "links": [
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          "head"
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        [
          "ear",
          "ear"
        ],
        [
          "spike",
          "spike"
        ]
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        "(of grain) A head, ear, spike"
      ],
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        "of grain"
      ],
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          "word": "spīcum"
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      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "[ˈs̠piːkä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspi.ka/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈspiːkä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spica"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "spīcilegium"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Late-Latin"
      ],
      "word": "spīcārium"
    }
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: spi"
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            "2": "spiga"
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          "expansion": "Italian: spiga",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Italian: spiga"
    },
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          "name": "desc"
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            "2": "espiga"
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          "expansion": "Portuguese: espiga",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: espiga"
    },
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          "name": "desc"
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    },
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            "2": "spica"
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      "depth": 1,
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          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: espiga",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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        "table-tags"
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "spīcārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīcae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
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    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīcam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "spīcās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīcā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīcīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spīcae",
      "source": "declension",
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        "plural",
        "vocative"
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      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
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  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 2-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin feminine nouns",
        "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
        "Latin first declension nouns",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
        "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *spey-",
        "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "la:Grains"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A head, ear, spike"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "ear",
          "ear"
        ],
        [
          "spike",
          "spike"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of grain) A head, ear, spike"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of grain"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspiː.ka/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈs̠piːkä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈspi.ka/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈspiːkä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spīcum"
    },
    {
      "word": "spīcus"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spica"
}

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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.