nasica

See also: Nasica

Italian

Noun

nasica m (invariable)

1. proboscis monkey

Anagrams

• Ascani, Scania, ancisa, casina, sicana

Latin

Etymology

From nāsus (“nose”) +‎ -īca (“-ic”).

Noun

nāsīca m or f (genitive nāsīcae); first declension

1. a man or woman with a large or pointed nose

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nāsīca	nāsīcae
genitive	nāsīcae	nāsīcārum
dative	nāsīcae	nāsīcīs
accusative	nāsīcam	nāsīcās
ablative	nāsīcā	nāsīcīs
vocative	nāsīca	nāsīcae

Derived terms

• Nāsīca

Descendants

• Occitan: nasica
• Sicilian: nasca

References

• “nasica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nasica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nasica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nasica”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray