landica
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain[1]; proposed derivations include:
- From glans (“acorn”). Compare postīca (“rear, back”).
- From lambō (“I lick”).
- From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to hide”). If so, cognate with Latin lateō (“I am concealed”) and Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō, “to forget”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /lanˈdiː.ka/, [ɫ̪än̪ˈd̪iːkä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lanˈdi.ka/, [län̪ˈd̪iːkä]
Noun
landīca f (genitive landīcae); first declension
- (vulgar slang, anatomy) clitoris
- gridiron
- censer
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | landīca | landīcae |
| Genitive | landīcae | landīcārum |
| Dative | landīcae | landīcīs |
| Accusative | landīcam | landīcās |
| Ablative | landīcā | landīcīs |
| Vocative | landīca | landīcae |
Descendants
- Old French: landie
- Romanian: lindic
References
- “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
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “landica”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 758