Noun: pica
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pica |
| Plural f | piques |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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pica beneitera (holy water font)
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Quan neix, la gota encara no sap que d'aquí a dos segons s'esclafarà contra la pica de la cuina. (When it's born, the droplet doesn't yet know that in two seconds it will smash against the kitchen sink.) [2006, Sergi Pàmies, “Com dues gotes d'aigua”, in Si menges una llimona sense fer ganyotes [If you eat a lemon without making a face]:]
Nouns inflected like pica
fàbrica,
sandàraca,
xereca,
paleotoca,
analítica,
característica,
fullaca,
busaroca,
barraca,
perruca,
subcomarca,
matrioixca,
retòrica,
cartoteca,
palanca,
cinegètica,
etnobotànica,
martinenca,
filmoteca,
ballestrinca, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin pīla (“mortar”), with an unexplained change from /l/ to /k/. Compare Spanish pila (“sink, font”). See: Latin Nouns '
pīla', Spanish Nouns '
pila'.
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