# spica
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin spica.

### Noun

spica (plural spicas or spicae)
* (botany) A spike.
* (ornithology) A spur.
* A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.

### Anagrams

* APICs, CISPA, ISPCA, PICAs, aspic, pacis, picas, scapi

## Albanian
### Noun

spica
* inflection of spicë:
** definite nominative singular
** indefinite nominative/accusative plural

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspi.ka/
* Rhymes: -ika
* Hyphenation: spì‧ca

### Noun

spica f (plural spiche)
* (poetic, archaic) Alternative form of spiga; ear (of corn); spike
* (regional) lavender
    Synonym: lavanda

### Anagrams

* aspic, caspi, cispa, pasci, scapi

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* spīcum
* spīcus

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *speikā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“sharp; sharp stick”), with de Vaan proposing a particular extended pre-form of *speyg.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈspiː.ka/, [ˈs̠piːkä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈspi.ka/, [ˈspiːkä]

### Noun

spīca f (genitive spīcae); first declension
* (of grain) A head, ear, spike

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* spīcilegium
* spīcārium (Late Latin)
* spīculum

#### Descendants

From spīca f.
* Italo-Dalmatian
** Dalmatian: spaica
** Italian: spiga
** Sicilian: spica
* Occitano-Romance
** Catalan: espiga
* Rhaeto-Romance
** Romansch: spia, spigia, speia
* Sardinian: ipiga, ispiga, ispica, spiga, spica
* West Iberian
** Old Galician-Portuguese: espiga
*** Galician: espiga
*** Portuguese: espiga
** Old Spanish: espiga
*** Spanish: espiga
* → English: spica
* → Italian: spica
From variant spīcum m.
* Eastern Romance
** Aromanian: schic
** Romanian: spic
* Occitano-Romance
** Occitan: espic, aspic
*** → French: aspic
* Old French: espi
** Middle French: espy, espi
*** French: épi
* Rhaeto-Romance
** Friulian: spi
* → French: spic

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “spīca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 580

### Further reading

* “spica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “spica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "spica", 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)
* spica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

### Anagrams

* pacis

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈspʲit͡sa]

### Adjective

spica
* feminine nominative singular of spicy

### Participle

spica
* feminine nominative singular of spicy

## Sicilian
### Etymology

From Latin spica (“spike, ear (of corn)”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈspika/
* Hyphenation: spi‧ca

### Noun

spica f (plural spichi)
* spike, ear
* grow, become mature

#### Derived terms

* spicari
* spicata
* spicatu

#### Related terms

* spiari
* spicchiu
* spicu
* sticchiu
* stipu