landica
Latin
editEtymology
editProbably for *glandīca, from glāns (“acorn”) + -īcus.[1][2] Less probably related to lateō (“I am concealed”). Sense 2 and 3 seem to have something to do with a semantic parallel to ἐσχάρα (eskhára),[3] which is affirmed by the gloss landīca – εσχαρίδι<ο>ν.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /lanˈdiː.ka/, [ɫ̪än̪ˈd̪iːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lanˈdi.ka/, [län̪ˈd̪iːkä]
Noun
editlandīca f (genitive landīcae); first declension
- (vulgar slang, anatomy) clitoris
- c. 100 CE, anonymous, Carmina Priapea 78, (Choliambic meter):
- At dī deaeque dentibus tuīs ēscam
negent, amīcae cunnilinge vīcīnae,
per quem puella fortis ante nec mendāx
et quae solēbat impigrō celer passū
ad nōs venīre, nunc misella landīcae
vix posse jūrat ambulāre prae fossīs.
- At dī deaeque dentibus tuīs ēscam
- 41 BCE, anonymous, Inscription on a leaden sling-bullet , (CIL XI 6721):
- PETO [LA]NDICAM FVLVIAE
- (Late Latin) gridiron
- Synonym: crāticula
- (Late Latin) censer
- Synonym: tūribulum
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | landīca | landīcae |
Genitive | landīcae | landīcārum |
Dative | landīcae | landīcīs |
Accusative | landīcam | landīcās |
Ablative | landīcā | landīcīs |
Vocative | landīca | landīcae |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “landica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- landica 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)
- landica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- landica in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “landica”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 758
- ^ Edwin W. Fay (1907): Greek and Latin Word Studies. In: The Classical Quarterly 1/1, pp. 13-14
- ^ “ἐσχάρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press