pica

See also: Pica, PICA, picá, piča, píča, piça, pică, and picā

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpʌɪkə/[1]
  • (US) enPR: pīkə, IPA(key): /ˈpaɪkə/[1]
  • Rhymes: -aɪkə

Etymology 1

From Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea that magpies will eat almost anything).

Noun

pica (usually uncountable, plural picas)

  1. (pathology) A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand.
    • 1986, George S Baroff, Mental retardation: nature, cause, and management:
      The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.
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Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie, "disordered type"). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.[1]

Noun

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

  1. (typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point.
  2. (typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
  3. (typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially 35⁄83 cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) 1⁄6 in.
  4. (uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.
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Etymology 3

Noun

pica (plural picas)

  1. Archaic form of pika. (small lagomorph)
    • 1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History (volume 3, page 190)
      Most travellers in the Himalaya are familiar with the pretty little Rodents, known as picas, tailless hares, or mouse-hares, which may be seen in the higher regions […]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "pica, n.1" & "pica, n.2". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2006.

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

pica f (plural piques)

  1. bowl
  2. sink

Etymology 2

Noun

pica f (plural piques)

  1. pike (weapon)
  2. spade (playing card)

Etymology 3

Noun

pica f (uncountable)

  1. pica (disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances)

Etymology 4

Noun

pica f (plural piques)

  1. peak, summit
    Synonyms: pic, cim, cima

Etymology 5

Noun

pica f (plural piques)

  1. pika (small, furry mammal)

Further reading

Galician

Noun

pica m (plural picas)

  1. pipit
  2. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

Verb

pica

  1. third-person singular present indicative of comer
  2. second-person singular imperative of comer

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pīca f (genitive pīcae); first declension

  1. magpie

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative pīca pīcae
genitive pīcae pīcārum
dative pīcae pīcīs
accusative pīcam pīcās
ablative pīcā pīcīs
vocative pīca pīcae

Descendants

References

Latvian

pica

Noun

pica f (4th declension)

  1. pizza

Declension

Old Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *piťa.

Noun

pica f

  1. fodder, forage

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

pica f (plural picas)

  1. (slang) dick; prick; penis
  2. (Portugal) jab (medical injection)

Etymology 2

Verb

pica

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of picar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of picar

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pic.

Noun

pica f (plural picas)

  1. (Internet slang) pic (short for picture, meaning image)

Romanian

Etymology

From pic. Compare also Aromanian chicu, chicare.

Verb

a pica (third-person singular present pică, past participle picat) 1st conj.

  1. (of a liquid) to drip
  2. (literally and figuratively) to fall
  3. to fail
  4. to come unexpectedly

Conjugation

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Hypocoristic form derived from pízda (“cunt”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pǐːtsa/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ca

Noun

píca f (Cyrillic spelling пи́ца)

  1. (vulgar, hypocoristic) cunt, pussy
Declension

Etymology 2

From Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pîtsa/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ca

Noun

pȉca f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏ца)

  1. pizza
Declension

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpìːtsa/, /ˈpíːtsa/
  • Tonal orthography: píca, pȋca

Noun

píca f (genitive píce, nominative plural píce)

  1. pizza

Declension

Spanish

Noun

pica f (plural picas)

  1. pike, lance
  2. pick (digging tool)
  3. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

Derived terms

  • sacar picas

See also

Suits in Spanish · palos (layout · text)
corazones ♥ diamantes ♦ picas ♠ tréboles ♣

Verb

pica

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of picar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of picar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of picar.
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