plica

From Medieval Latin, from Latin plicare (“to fold”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaɪkə/

plica (countable and uncountable, plural plicas or plicae)

1. A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
2. Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica: a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together[1].
3. (botany) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
4. (zoology) The bend of the wing of a bird.
5. (music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.

• icpal

Borrowed from Latin plica, a derivative of plicō (“to fold”).

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

plica f (plural pliche)

1. (anatomy) plica, fold

• plicale

• piegare
• plico

plicā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of plicō

• plica 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)