# ridica
## Italian
### Verb

ridica
* inflection of ridire:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* Ciardi, Icardi, darici, idrica, radici, ricadi

## Latin
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈri.di.ka/, [ˈrɪd̪ɪkä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈri.di.ka/, [ˈriːd̪ikä]

### Noun

ridica f (genitive ridicae); first declension
* (agriculture) A stake, a vine-prop

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* ridicula

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “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.

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ri.diˈka/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: ri‧di‧ca

### Verb

a ridica (third-person singular present ridică, past participle ridicat) 1st conjugation
* (transitive) to lift, elevate, raise, hoist, suspend
    Synonym: înălța
* (transitive) to increase
* (transitive) to uplift
* (reflexive) to get up, stand up, arise
    Synonym: scula
* (intransitive, figurative, literary) to tower
** 2024, Bogdan Perdivară, transl., Câmpiile, Bucharest: Litera, translation of The Plains by Gerard Murnane, →ISBN, page 92:Portdrapelele se ridicau golașe deasupra fileurilor de tenis.The bare flagpoles towered over the tennis nets.
* (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.
* (reflexive, rather archaic) to recover from a disease
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:se însănătoși
* (transitive, chiefly obsolete) to heal, cure
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vindeca

#### Derived terms

* ridicare
* ridicătură

### References

* ridica in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)