urtica
See also: Urtica
Italian
Noun
urtica f (plural urtiche)
- alternative form of ortica
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Unknown. Ernout and Meillet rejects association with ūrō (“to burn”) as a folk etymology, since that verb etymologically has a stem ending in -s- and so should have yielded *ū̆stīca instead.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ʊrˈtiː.ka]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [urˈt̪iː.ka]
Noun
urtīca f (genitive urtīcae); first declension
- stinging nettle
- sea nettle
- (figuratively) a (sexual) itch, prurience
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | urtīca | urtīcae |
| genitive | urtīcae | urtīcārum |
| dative | urtīcae | urtīcīs |
| accusative | urtīcam | urtīcās |
| ablative | urtīcā | urtīcīs |
| vocative | urtīca | urtīcae |
Descendants
References
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “urtica”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 755
Further reading
- “urtica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “urtica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- urtica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Portuguese
Verb
urtica
- inflection of urticar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative