alica

See also: Alica and alică

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄλιξ (álix) ‘rice-wheat groat’.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

alica f (genitive alicae); first declension

  1. A form of wheat (either spelt or emmer)
  2. grits prepared from this grain
  3. A drink prepared from these grits

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative alica alicae
Genitive alicae alicārum
Dative alicae alicīs
Accusative alicam alicās
Ablative alicā alicīs
Vocative alica alicae

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Romanian: alac
  • Sardinian: àlighe, àligu
  • Spanish: álaga

References
  • “alica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • alica 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)
  • alica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “alica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 33.
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