rica – Wiktionary

See also: riĉa, riça

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-riĉa

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Catalan

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Galician

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Indonesian

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From Manado Malay rica (“chili pepper”) and North Moluccan Malay rica, from Ternate rica, itself from Malay merica, from Pali marica, from Sanskrit मरिच (marica). Doublet of merica.

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rica (plural rica-rica, first-person possessive ricaku, second-person possessive ricamu, third-person possessive ricanya)

Further reading

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• “rica” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language

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  , Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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From Proto-Italic *wreikā, from Proto-Indo-European *wreyḱ- (“to twist, weave, bind”). Cognate with English wry, German reihen (“to crimp”) and Ancient Greek ῥοικός (rhoikós, “bent, curved”).

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rīca f (genitive rīcae); first declension

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First-declension noun.

Case

Singular

Plural

Nominative

rīca

rīcae
Genitive
rīcae
rīcārum
Dative
rīcae
rīcīs
Accusative
rīcam
rīcās
Ablative

rīcā

rīcīs
Vocative

rīca

rīcae

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• “

  rica

  ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• rica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “

  rica

  ”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Manado Malay

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From North Moluccan Malay rica (“chili pepper”), from Ternate rica, from Malay merica, from Pali marica, from Sanskrit मरिच (marica).

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rica

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Neapolitan

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rica f (plural rriche)

Portuguese

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Spanish

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rica f (plural ricas)

1. (

   Rioja

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   fenugreek

Further reading

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• “rica”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Ternate

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Likely from an older, unattested form *marica, from Malay merica, from Pali marica, from Sanskrit मरिच (marica). The initial ma was likely reinterpreted as the possessive.

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rica

1. the chili pepper

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  North Moluccan Malay: rica

  • Manado Malay: rica

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      Indonesian: rica

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• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish رجا‎ (rica), from Arabic رَجَاء‎ (rajāʾ).

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rica (definite accusative ricayı, plural ricalar)

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Inflection

Nominative

rica

Definite accusative

ricayı

Singular

Plural

Nominative

rica

ricalar

Definite accusative

ricayı
ricaları

Dative

ricaya
ricalara

Locative

ricada
ricalarda

Ablative

ricadan
ricalardan

Genitive

ricanın
ricaların

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Venetian

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rica f sg