trica

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin trica, coined by Erik Acharius in his 1803 work Methodus qua omnes detectos Lichenes. Perhaps connected to Latin trīcae, although the semantic relationship is unclear.

Noun

trica (plural tricae)

  1. (lichenology, obsolete, rare) An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “trica”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From tri +‎ -ca.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /trît͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: tri‧ca
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun

trȉca f (Cyrillic spelling три̏ца)

  1. three (digit or figure)
  2. anything numbered three (playing card, tram, bus, player with a jersey number 3 etc.)
  3. the school grade '3'
Declension
Declension of trica
singular plural
nominative trȉca trice
genitive trice trȋcā
dative trici tricama
accusative tricu trice
vocative trico trice
locative trici tricama
instrumental tricom tricama

Further reading
  • “trica” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

See tričàrija.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /trît͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: tri‧ca
  • Rhymes: -it͡sa

Noun

trȉca f (Cyrillic spelling три̏ца)

  1. (usually in the plural) trifle, junk
    trice i kučine ― nonsense
Declension
Declension of trica
singular plural
nominative trica trice
genitive trice trica
dative trici tricama
accusative tricu trice
vocative trico trice
locative trici tricama
instrumental tricom tricama

Further reading
  • “trica” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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