# persica
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛr.si.ka/
* Rhymes: -ɛrsika
* Hyphenation: pèr‧si‧ca

### Etymology 1

From Latin persica (“peach”), compare also persico (“peach tree”). Doublet of pesca.

#### Noun

persica f (plural persiche)
* (regional or literary) peach (fruit)
    Synonym: pesca

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

persica
* feminine singular of persico

### Further reading

* persica in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* persica in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

### Anagrams

* capresi, crespai, perisca, pesarci, piscerà, precisa, prescia, rapisce, ripesca, saperci, sciarpe, scipare, spiacer, sprecai

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈper.si.ka/, [ˈpɛrs̠ɪkä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈper.si.ka/, [ˈpɛrsikä]

### Etymology 1

From persicus, from Persae (“Persians”).

#### Noun

persica f (genitive persicae); first declension
* (Medieval Latin) walnut

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

### Etymology 2

Inflected form of persicum (“peach”).

#### Noun

persica
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of persicum

#### Noun

persica
* (Late Latin) peach (fruit and tree)

##### Related terms

* Persa
* Persae
* persicum
* persicus

##### Descendants

* → Albanian: pjeshkë (probably)
* Aromanian: chearsicã, chiarsicã, hearhicã, hearsicã, kearsicã
* Italian: persica, pesca
* Neapolitan: perzeca
* Occitan: persega
* → Old Danish: persik
** Danish: fersken
*** → Faroese: ferska
*** → Icelandic: ferskja
*** → Norwegian Bokmål: fersken
*** → Norwegian Nynorsk: fersken
* Old French: pesche, persche
** Champenois: prêche, péte
** Middle French: pesche
*** French: pêche
**** → Malagasy: paiso
** Norman: pêche
** Walloon: pexhî
** → Middle English: peche
*** English: peach
**** → Abenaki: biches (from the plural peaches)
**** →? Arapaho: biisib
**** → Bengali: পীচ (pic) (probably)
**** → Haida: píichas
**** → Malay: pic (probably)
**** →? Maori: pītiti
**** → Swahili: pichi (probably)
**** → Thai: พีช (píit)
** → Irish: péitseog
** → Manx: peitshag, pershagh
* Piedmontese: persi
* Romanian: piersică
* Sardinian: pélsica, pérsiga
* Sicilian: pèrsicu
* → Swedish: persika
* → Proto-Slavic: *persky, *bersky, *porsky
** South Slavic:
*** Bulgarian: пра́скова (práskova), пра́сква (práskva), пра́скъва (práskǎva), пра́скува (práskuva), пра́ска (práska), пра́сквя (práskvja), пра́ська (prásʹka), пра́скя (práskja), пра́скье (práskje), пра́сковье (práskovje), пра́скъ f (prásk) — dialectal
*** Macedonian: праска (praska)
*** Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: бре̏сква, dialectally бра̏сква, пра̏сква, пра̏ска, бре̏ска, бри̏ска, бри̏сква
    Latin script: brȅskva, dialectally brȁskva, prȁskva, prȁska, brȅska, brȉska, brȉskva
*** Slovene: brẹ́skəv, dialectally brẹ̑skva
*** → Aromanian: prascã
*** → Hungarian: barack
** West Slavic:
*** Czech: břeskev, replaced by confusion with broskev
*** Polish: brzoskiew
**** ⇒ Polish: brzoskwinia
***** → Russian: броскви́на (broskvína), брускви́на (bruskvína), брусвына (brusvyna), бросква (broskva), бросквиня (broskvinja), бросвины (brosviny)
***** → Old Ukrainian: бросквинъ (broskvin)
****** Ukrainian: бросквина (broskvyna), броскви́ня (broskvýnja), брускви́на (bruskvýna), брускви́ня (bruskvýnja), брусвина (brusvyna), брескви́ня (breskvýnja), броскви́ння (broskvýnnja), броски́ння (broskýnnja)
*** Old Slovak: breskev, breskva, breskyňa, broskyňa
**** Pannonian Rusyn: брескиня (breskinja)
**** Slovak: broskyňa, formerly dialectally broskva, broskev
*** Sorbian:
    Lower Sorbian: brjaschen, rjaschen, brjaskeẃ, brjasken (of which rjaschen prevails)
    Upper Sorbian: brěska f, brěšk m

### References

* persica 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)