lorica

Borrowed from Latin lōrīca, literally "a corselet of thongs", probably from lorum (“thong”).

lorica (plural loricas or loricae)

1. (historical) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.
2. (chemistry, obsolete) Lute for protecting vessels from the fire.
3. (zoology) The protective case or shell of a Loricifera, infusorian or rotifer

• loricate

From Latin lōrīca.

• IPA^(key): /loˈri.ka/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: lo‧rì‧ca

lorica f (plural loriche)

1. lorica
   • 1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno - Sesta”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 49:

     Ma orrenda mi parve dal lato opposto un'aquila, il becco dilatato, le piume irte disposte a lorìca, gli artigli possenti, le grandi ali aperte.

     But from the opposite side an eagle looked terrifying, the open beak, the spiked feathers placed like in a lorica, the strong claws, the large wings.

• lorica in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Dubious, but traditionally taken to derive from lōrum (“a leather strap or thong”).

• lūrīca (Medieval Latin)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /loːˈriː.ka/, [ɫ̪oːˈriːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /loˈri.ka/, [loˈriːkä]

lōrīca f (genitive lōrīcae); first declension

1. A coat of mail
2. A breastplate

First-declension noun.

• (coat of mail): cataphractēs
• (breastplate): thōrax

• lōrīca hāmāta
• lōrīca segmentāta
• lōrīca squāmāta

• →⇒ Translingual: Loricifera (taxon)
• Catalan: lloriga
• → English: lorica (learned)
• Galician: loriga
• Italian: lorica
• Old Galician-Portuguese: loriga
• Portuguese: loriga
• Romanian: lorică
• Spanish: loriga
• Welsh: llurig

Form of the verb lōrīcō (“plaster, armour”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /loːˈriː.kaː/, [ɫ̪oːˈriːkäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /loˈri.ka/, [loˈriːkä]

lōrīcā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lōrīcō

• “lorica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lorica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lorica 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)
• lorica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lorica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lorica”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin