empirica

empirica

1. feminine singular of empirico

• campirei, emicarpi, imprecai, piacermi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛmˈpiː.rɪ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [emˈpiː.ri.ka]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

empīrica n pl (genitive empīricōrum); second declension

1. any treatise on medicine written by an empiricus

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• empīricē
• empīricus

• “empīrĭca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2 empīrĭca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “587/1”
• “empīricus · c” on page 606/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Latinisation of the Grecian first-declension endings (-ē, -ēs, etc.) to those of the regular Latin first declension (-a, -ae, etc.).

empīrica f (genitive empīricae); first declension

1. alternative form of empīricē

First-declension noun.