Motyca

Latin

Alternative forms

• Mutyca, Mutycē

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μοτύκα (Motúka). Compare, for more, Mutina, Utica, Ustica, also Camicus and Inycus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ty.ka/, [ˈmɔt̪ʏkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ti.ka/, [ˈmɔːt̪ikä]

Proper noun

Motyca f sg (genitive Motycae); first declension

1. A town in interior Sicily, situated between Syracusae and Camarina, now Modica

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Motyca
genitive	Motycae
dative	Motycae
accusative	Motycam
ablative	Motycā
vocative	Motyca
locative	Motycae

Derived terms

• Motycēnsēs
• Motycēnsis

Descendants

• Italian: Modica
• Sicilian: Mòdica

References

• “Mŭtyca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Motyca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Mutyce in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.