pica

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪkə/[1]

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• (General American) enPR: pīkə, IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪkə/[1]
• Rhymes: -aɪkə

Borrowed from Latin pīca (“jay; magpie”) (from the idea that magpies will eat almost anything), from Proto-Italic *peikā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“magpie; woodpecker”). Doublet of pie.

pica (usually uncountable, plural picas)

1. (pathology) A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.

   Synonyms: allotriophagy, chthonophagia, cittosis, geophagy, (obsolete, rare) pique

   • 1986, George S Baroff, Mental retardation: nature, cause, and management:

     The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.

• pica (disorder) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie (“disordered type”)). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.[1]

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

1. (typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, now standardized as 12-point.
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale 1989, p. 30:

     I had been at Baldwin's before dinner in consequence of a letter from him which showed me that, by using a pica instead of an English letter in printing my book, I might comprise it within such a number of sheets as a guinea-volume should contain […] .

2. (typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
3. (typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.

   Coordinate terms: cicero, em, en, point

4. (uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.

• pica (typography) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

pica (plural picas)

1. Archaic form of pika (“small lagomorph”).
   • 1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History (volume 3, page 190)

     Most travellers in the Himalaya are familiar with the pretty little Rodents, known as picas, tailless hares, or mouse-hares, which may be seen in the higher regions […]

From Latin.

pica (plural picas)

1. A magpie.

• ACPI, APIC, apic, capi, paci

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ka/

Latin pīla (“mortar”), with an unexplained change from /l/ to /k/. Compare Spanish pila (“sink, font”).

pica f (plural piques)

1. bowl

   pica beneitera ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. sink

   Synonym: lavabo

   de mica en mica s'omple la pica (proverb) ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 2006, Sergi Pàmies, “Com dues gotes d'aigua”, in Si menges una llimona sense fer ganyotes:

     Quan neix, la gota encara no sap que d'aquí a dos segons s'escalfarà contra la pica de la cuina.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Borrowed from Spanish pica (“pike”).

pica f (plural piques)

1. (weaponry) pike
2. (card games) spade

Latin pīca (“magpie”)

pica f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) pica (disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances)

Deverbal from picar

pica f (plural piques)

1. peak, summit

   Synonyms: pic, cim, cima

From French pika, from an Evenki word.

pica f (plural piques)

1. pika (small, furry mammal)

• “pica” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pica” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

pica m (plural picas)

1. pipit
2. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

pica

1. third-person singular present indicative of comer
2. second-person singular imperative of comer

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: pì‧ca

pica f (plural piche)

1. picacismo
2. magpie

• capi, capì, paci

From Proto-Italic *peikā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), whence also Latin pīcus (“woodpecker”).

Romance forms in -e- might reflect a different etymon, such as the Umbrian peico (acc.sg.), where the product of /ei/'s monophthongisation coincided with the latin /ē/. Cognate to Sanskrit पिक (piká, “cuckoo”), German Specht (“woodpecker”), Swedish spett (“crowbar, skewer; kind of woodpecker”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.ka/, [ˈpiːkä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ka/, [ˈpiːkä]

pīca f (genitive pīcae); first declension

1. magpie

First-declension noun.

• pīcus

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 420

• “pica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pica 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)

From Italian pizza.

pica f (4th declension)

1. pizza

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *piťa.

pica f

1. fodder, forage

   Synonym: obrok

• Polish: pica (obsolete)

• M. Arcta Słownik Staropolski/Pica on the Polish Wikisource.Wikisource ^pl
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “pica”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic.

pica f

1. vulva

• Polish: pica

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “pica”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -it͡sa
• Syllabification: pi‧ca

Inherited from Old Polish pica (“fodder, food, forage”), from Proto-Slavic *piťa.

pica f

1. (obsolete) fodder, forage

   Synonyms: furaż, pasza

Inherited from Old Polish pica (“vulva”), from Proto-Slavic.

pica f (diminutive piczka)

1. (vulgar) cunt, pussy (female genitalia)

   Synonyms: cipa, pizda, psiocha

• pica in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pica in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Back-formation from picar

pica f (plural picas)

1. (Brazil, slang) dick; prick; penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

2. (Portugal, childish) jab (medical injection)

   Synonym: vacina

3. (Portugal, colloquial) energy; power

   Já estou com a pica toda. ― I'm full of energy.

4. (Portugal, colloquial) enthusiasm, will

   Falta-me pica para continuar o projeto ― I'm lacking enthusiasm to continue with the project.

pica m (plural picas)

1. (Portugal, informal) ticket inspector

   Synonym: revisor

Borrowed from English pic.

pica f (plural picas)

1. (Brazil, Internet slang) pic (short for picture, meaning image)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pica

1. inflection of picar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From pic. Compare also Aromanian chicu, chicare.

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a pica (third-person singular present pică, past participle picat) 1st conj.

1. (of a liquid) to drip

   Synonym: picura

2. (literally and figuratively) to fall

   Synonym: cădea

3. to fail
4. to come unexpectedly

• picătură

Hypocoristic form derived from pízda (“cunt”).

• IPA^(key): /pǐːtsa/
• Hyphenation: pi‧ca
• Rhymes: -it͡sa

píca f (Cyrillic spelling пи́ца)

1. (vulgar, hypocoristic) cunt, pussy

From Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /pîtsa/
• Hyphenation: pi‧ca
• Rhymes: -it͡sa

pȉca f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏ца)

1. pizza

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /pìːt͡sa/, /píːt͡sa/

pīca f

1. pizza

• “pica”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From the verb picar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpika/ [ˈpi.ka]
• Rhymes: -ika
• Syllabification: pi‧ca

pica f (plural picas)

1. pike, lance
2. pick (digging tool)
3. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

• poner una pica en Flandes
• sacar pica

pica

1. inflection of picar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “pica”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014