trica
English
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin trica, coined by Erik Acharius in his 1803 work Methodus qua omnes detectos Lichenes. Perhaps connected to Latin trīcae, although the semantic relationship is unclear.
Noun
trica (plural tricae)
- (lichenology, obsolete, rare) An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trica”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trît͡sa/
- Hyphenation: tri‧ca
- Rhymes: -it͡sa
Noun
trȉca f (Cyrillic spelling три̏ца)
- three (digit or figure)
- anything numbered three (playing card, tram, bus, player with a jersey number 3 etc.)
- the school grade '3'
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | trȉca | trice |
| genitive | trice | trȋcā |
| dative | trici | tricama |
| accusative | tricu | trice |
| vocative | trico | trice |
| locative | trici | tricama |
| instrumental | tricom | tricama |
Further reading
- “trica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Etymology 2
See tričàrija.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /trît͡sa/
- Hyphenation: tri‧ca
- Rhymes: -it͡sa
Noun
trȉca f (Cyrillic spelling три̏ца)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | trica | trice |
| genitive | trice | trica |
| dative | trici | tricama |
| accusative | tricu | trice |
| vocative | trico | trice |
| locative | trici | tricama |
| instrumental | tricom | tricama |
Further reading
- “trica”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025