Marica

See also: marica and Maricá

Latin

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maˈriː.ka/, [mäˈriːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maˈri.ka/, [mäˈriːkä]

Proper noun

Marīca f sg (genitive Marīcae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) A nymph, mother of Latinus

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Marīca
genitive	Marīcae
dative	Marīcae
accusative	Marīcam
ablative	Marīcā
vocative	Marīca

References

• “Marica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Marica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Màrija +‎ -ca.

Proper noun

Mȁrica f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏рица)

1. a female given name, Hypocoristic of Màrija

Declension

    Declension of Marica

	singular	plural
nominative	Marica	Marice
genitive	Marice	Marica
dative	Marici	Maricama
accusative	Maricu	Marice
vocative	Marico	Marice
locative	Marici	Maricama
instrumental	Maricom	Maricama

Etymology 2

Perhaps the same as above.

Proper noun

Mȁrica f (Cyrillic spelling Ма̏рица)

1. Maritsa (a river in Bulgaria)

Further reading

• “Marica”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024