piratica
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piˈra.ti.ka/
- Rhymes: -atika
- Hyphenation: pi‧rà‧ti‧ca
Adjective
piratica
- feminine singular of piratico
Latin
Pronunciation
- pīrātica: (Classical) IPA(key): /piːˈraː.ti.ka/, [piːˈräːt̪ɪkä]
- pīrātica: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piˈra.ti.ka/, [piˈräːt̪ikä]
- pīrāticā: (Classical) IPA(key): /piːˈraː.ti.kaː/, [piːˈräːt̪ɪkäː]
- pīrāticā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piˈra.ti.ka/, [piˈräːt̪ikä]
Etymology 1
Derived from pīrāticus, perhaps via ellipsis of arspīrātica. Compare mūsica, from Ancient Greek τέχνη μουσική (tékhnē mousikḗ, “art of the Muses”).
Noun
pīrātica f (genitive pīrāticae); first declension
- piracy
- pīrāticam facere, exercēre ― to commit piracy
- Synonym: pīrātia(medieval)
- 57 BCE, Cicero, Post Reditum in Senatu 11:
- Qui in magistratu nisi rogationem de piratico bello tulisset, profecto egestate et improbitate coactus piraticam ipse fecisset
- If he [Aulus Gabinius] hadn't brought that law through on the Pirate War [the Lex Gabinia], of course he himself would have committed piracy due to his own poverty and wickedness
- Qui in magistratu nisi rogationem de piratico bello tulisset, profecto egestate et improbitate coactus piraticam ipse fecisset
- c. 95 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.34:
- Quaedam tamen perdurant. Nam et quae uetera nunc sunt fuerunt olim noua, et quaedam sunt in usu perquam recentia, [...] 'Piraticam' quoque ut 'musicam' et 'fabricam' dici adhuc dubitabant mei praeceptores, 'fauorem' et 'urbanum' Cicero noua credit.
- Some [words] stay, however, as words that are now old were new long time ago, and there are also words that only very recently became in common use [...] My own teachers still hesitated to use pīrātica, mūsica, and fabrica, and Cicero thinks favor and urbānus are new.
- Quaedam tamen perdurant. Nam et quae uetera nunc sunt fuerunt olim noua, et quaedam sunt in usu perquam recentia, [...] 'Piraticam' quoque ut 'musicam' et 'fabricam' dici adhuc dubitabant mei praeceptores, 'fauorem' et 'urbanum' Cicero noua credit.
- c. 986 CE, Abbo of Fleury, Vita Sancti Eadmundi 5:[1]
- maxime Dani, occidentis regionibus nimium vicini, quoniam circa eas piratycam exercent frequentibus latrociniis
- of these, most of all the Danish, who are too close to the Western regions as they commit piracy in the area, with frequent assaults
- maxime Dani, occidentis regionibus nimium vicini, quoniam circa eas piratycam exercent frequentibus latrociniis
- 1508, Erasmus, Adagia Chiliades.3:
- Cilices enim ob piraticam, quam exercebant, et assiduas hostium depraedationes, infames erant immanitatis et crudelitatis nomine.
- Due to piracy, which they committed, and their terrible pillaging of their enemies, the Cilicians were infamous for their brutality and cruelty.
- Cilices enim ob piraticam, quam exercebant, et assiduas hostium depraedationes, infames erant immanitatis et crudelitatis nomine.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
pīrātica
- inflection of pīrāticus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
pīrāticā
- ablative feminine singular of pīrāticus
Further reading
- as cited in "piratica", Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “piratica”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, OCLC 1369101