# plico
## Italian
### Etymology

Created by chanceries in the 15th century from a stem of Latin plicāre (“to fold”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpli.ko/
* Rhymes: -iko
* Hyphenation: plì‧co

### Noun

plico m (plural plichi)
* parcel, packet
* cover

#### Related terms

* piegare
* plica

### References

* ↑ plico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* colpi, colpì

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *plekāō, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”) (with i from its compounds, which had much use), the PIE root being an extension of Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to wrap”). Cognate with plectō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpli.koː/, [ˈplʲɪkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpli.ko/, [ˈpliːko]

### Verb

plicō (present infinitive plicāre, perfect active plicuī, supine plicātum); first conjugation
* (transitive) to fold, bend or flex; to roll up
* (late, non classical meaning) (transitive) to arrive (this meaning comes from sailors, for whom the folding of a ship’s sails meant arrival on land)

#### Conjugation

* A regularized perfect plicāvī is occasionally found in Medieval usage.

#### Derived terms

* applicō
* biplex
* centiplex, centuplex
* complicō
* decemplex
* dēplicō
* displicō
* duplex
* explicō
* implicō
* multiplex
* multiplicō
* plicatilis
* quadruplex
* quincuplex, quinqueplex, quintuplex
* replicō
* septemplex
* sescuplex, sesquiplex
* simplex
* supplicō
* triplex

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance
** Aromanian: plec, plicari
** Romanian: pleca, plecare
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: piegà, piigà
** Italian: piegare
** Sicilian: chicari
* Sardinian: pigiàre, pijare, pricare, prigare
* Padanian:
** Rhaeto-Romance:
*** Friulian: pleâ
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Ligurian: cegà
*** Piedmontese: pieghé
** Venetan: piegar
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: pleyér, plyeyér
** Old French: ploiier, pleier, plier
*** French: ployer, plier
*** → English: ploy, ply
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Aragonese: plegar, pllegar (Ribagorçan)
** Catalan: plegar, pllegar (northwestern)
*** →? Spanish: plegar
**** →? Asturian: plegar
** Occitan: plegar, plejar (northern)
* Ibero-Romance
** Asturian: llegar, chegar (western)
** Old Galician-Portuguese: chegar
*** Galician: chegar
*** Portuguese: chegar (see there for further descendants)
** Spanish: llegar
* Borrowings:
** → English: plicate
** → French: pliquer
** → Galician: pregar
** → Portuguese: pregar, plicar
** → Spanish: pregar
** → Welsh: plygu (ancient borrowing)

### References

* “plico”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “plico”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* plico in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
* Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 471-2