ridica

ridica

1. inflection of ridire:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Ciardi, Icardi, darici, idrica, radici, ricadi

Uncertain. A doubtful connection with Ancient Greek ἐρείδω (ereídō, “I prop, support”) is sometimes suggested. Pokorny suggests a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyd- for both, which Beekes finds plausible for the Greek word.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɪ.dɪ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.d̪i.ka]

ridica f (genitive ridicae); first declension

1. (agriculture) A stake, a vine-prop

First-declension noun.

• ridicula

• Galician: rodriga
• Romanian: ridica (possibly)
• Spanish: rodrigón

• “ridica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ridica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• rădica — archaic or regional
• râdica — obsolete
• aridica — obsolete

Probably from Latin ērādīcāre (“root out, eradicate”) (and thus a doublet of the borrowing eradica). Another possibility is Late Latin or Vulgar Latin ridicāre (“tie a vine, e.g. in a vineyard”) (attested from a late gloss), from ridica (“stake; prop; vine-prop”); cf. also Spanish rodrigón. The semantic development in this case would pertain to how vines were set up in Romanian vineyards traditionally, using a trunk for the vines and stakes to support them; in the winter they would be lowered covered with a layer of earth to protect from the cold, but in spring would be raised again on the stakes or props. Less likely etymologies proposed include a Vulgar Latin *rigidicāre, from rigidus, or *adrecticāre. Compare Megleno-Romanian rădic, ardic, ardicari.

• IPA^(key): /ri.diˈka/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ri‧di‧ca

a ridica (third-person singular present ridică, past participle ridicat, third-person subjunctive ridice) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive) to lift, elevate, raise, hoist, suspend

   Synonym: înălța

2. (transitive) to increase
3. (transitive) to uplift
4. (reflexive) to get up, stand up, arise

   Synonym: scula

5. (intransitive, figurative, literary) to tower
   • 2024, Bogdan Perdivară, transl., Câmpiile, Bucharest: Litera, translation of The Plains by Gerald Murnane, →ISBN, page 92:

     Portdrapelele se ridicau golașe deasupra fileurilor de tenis.

     The bare flagpoles towered over the tennis nets.

6. (reflexive, formal, of amounts) to amount, add up to [with la]
   • 1990, Corneliu Vlad, “Păcatele teleevangheliștilor [The sins of the televangelists]”, in Lumea ’90 (yearly), Bucharest, page 122:

     Veniturile sale se estimează că s-au ridicat la 73,5 milioane dolari în 1986.

     His income is estimated to have added up to 73.5 million dollars in 1986.

7. (reflexive, rather archaic) to recover from a disease

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:se însănătoși

8. (transitive, chiefly obsolete) to heal, cure

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vindeca

• ridicare
• ridicătură

• “ridica”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025