plica

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaɪkə/

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.^[1]
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.

• icpal

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin plica, a derivative of Classical Latin plicō (“I fold, bend or flex; I roll up”). Compare Sicilian chica.

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

plica f (plural pliche)

1. (literally and figuratively, obsolete or literary) fold
2. (diplomacy, historical) a fold made in a document at the level where the seal is
3. (anatomy) Synonym of piega (“plica, fold”)
4. (music, historical, neumatic notation) liquescent neume

• plica¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• plica² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

plicā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of plicō

• plica 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)