vindicia

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯inˈdi.ki.a/, [u̯ɪn̪ˈd̪ɪkiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vinˈdi.t͡ʃi.a/, [vin̪ˈd̪iːt͡ʃiä]

vindic- (stem of vindex, “claimant”, “vindicator”) +‎ -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns)

vindicia f (genitive vindiciae); first declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) a laying claim to (a thing, before thepraetor, by both contending parties)
2. a legal claim (made in respect to a thing, whether as one’s own property, or for its restoration to a free condition)
3. provisional possession (for the duration of thevindicātiō, of the property so disputed)

First-declension noun.

Inflected form of vindicium.

vindicia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vindicium

• “vindĭcĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vindĭcĭae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vindĭcĭæ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 1,678–9