pertica

From Latin pertica.

pertica f (plural pertiche)

1. pole, rod
2. beanpole

• perticata

• carpite, crepati, crepita

From Proto-Italic *perth, *pertikā (whence also Oscan 𐌐𐌄𐌓𐌄𐌊 (perek, “pole”), Umbrian 𐌐𐌄𐌓𐌊𐌀𐌚 (perkaf, “rod”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pertʰ- (“pole, sprout”), and tentatively compared to Ancient Greek πτόρθος (ptórthos, “sprout”), Sanskrit कपृथ् (kapṛth, “penis”), though de Vaan dismisses these extra-Italic connections as "[not] even remotely convincing".^[1]

Compare ridica (“stake”).

pertica f (genitive perticae); first declension

1. pole, long staff
2. measuring rod
3. (units of measure) rod, (especially) the Roman rod of 10 ft (about 3 m)

First-declension noun.

• decempeda

• perticalis

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pertica, perchia (Tuscan)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: perdga
  • Ligurian: pèrtega
  • Lombard: pèrtega, pertia
  • Piedmontese: pèrtia, pèrcia, perga
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: perche, percha (Valdôtain)
  • French: perche
  • Norman: pèrque
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: perxa
    • → Spanish: percha
  • Occitan: pèrga

    Gascon: pèrja

    Nord-Occitan: perja

    Provençal: pertega

    Vivaro-Alpine: pertia, perga

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: pértega
• Borrowings:
  • → English: perch, pertica
  • → Portuguese: pértiga, pírtiga (semi-learned) (semi-learned)
  • → Old Spanish: piértiga, pértiga (semi-learned) (semi-learned)
    • → Spanish: pértiga (semi-learned)

• “pertica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pertica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pertica", 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)
• pertica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pertica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN