spica

Borrowed from Latin spica.

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.

• APICs, CISPA, ISPCA, PICAs, aspic, pacis, picas, scapi

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

spica f (plural spiche)

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

   Synonym: lavanda

• aspic, caspi, cispa, pasci, scapi

• spīcum
• spīcus

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspiː.ka/, [ˈs̠piːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspi.ka/, [ˈspiːkä]

spīca f (genitive spīcae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• spīcilegium
• spīcārium (Late Latin)
• spīculum

From spīca f.

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Dalmatian: spaica
  • Italian: spiga
  • Sicilian: spica
• Occitano-Romance
  • Catalan: espiga
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Romansch: spia, spigia, speia
• Sardinian: ipiga, ispiga, ispica, spiga, spica
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: espiga
    • Galician: espiga
    • Portuguese: espiga
  • Old Spanish: espiga
    • Spanish: espiga
• → English: spica
• → Italian: spica

From variant spīcum m.

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: schic
  • Romanian: spic
• Occitano-Romance
  • Occitan: espic, aspic
    • → French: aspic
• Old French: espi
  • Middle French: espy, espi
    • French: épi
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: spi
• → French: spic

• “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.

• pacis

• IPA^(key): [ˈspʲit͡sa]

spica

1. feminine nominative singular of spicy

spica

1. feminine nominative singular of spicy

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

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

spica f (plural spichi)

1. spike, ear
2. grow, become mature