mica

Borrowed from Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”).

• enPR: mīkə, IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪkə/
• Rhymes: -aɪkə

mica (countable and uncountable, plural micas)

1. (mineralogy) Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

• biotite
• lepidolite
• muscovite
• paragonite
• phlogopite

• mica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -amic, ACMI, Maci, aMCI, amic, cami, cima, iMac

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan mica), from Vulgar Latin *micca, variant of Latin mīca, from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ka/

mica f (plural miques)

1. a bit, a small piece

• de mica en mica
• miqueta
• una mica
• una mica de

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

mica f (plural miques)

1. (mineralogy) mica

• “mica” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

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mica f (plural micas)

1. (mineralogy) mica

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

mica f (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) mica

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ka/

From Latin mīca, from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”).

mica f (plural miche)

1. (archaic or literary) breadcrumb
2. (by extension) bit, morsel

   Synonym: minuzzolo

• micella

mica

1. (colloquial) not

   Mica male! ― Not bad!

2. (colloquial) hardly, you know

   Mica sono stupido

   I’m hardly stupid; I’m not stupid, you know

3. (colloquial) bit

   Non è mica cambiato ― It hasn't changed one bit

4. (colloquial) at all

   Non costa mica molto ― It is not at all expensive

5. (colloquial) by any chance

   Non hai mica trovato il mio portafoglio?

   Have you seen my wallet by any chance?

Borrowed from Latin mīca, the same source as the above.

mica f (plural miche)

1. (mineralogy) mica (mineral)

• cima

From Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”), related to Old English smicor (“beauteous, beautiful, elegant, fair, fine, tasteful”). More at smicker.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.ka/

mīca f (genitive mīcae); first declension

1. crumb, morsel, grain
2. (New Latin, mineralogy) mica

First declension.

• mīcārius
• mīcidus
• mīcula

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: mică
• Italian: mica
• Old French: mie
  • French: mie
• Old Portuguese: miga
  • Portuguese: miga
• Old Spanish: miga
  • Spanish: miga
• → English: mica
• → French: mica
• → Galician: mica
• → Portuguese: mica
• → Spanish: mica
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *micca
  • Old French: miche
    • French: miche
  • Old Occitan: [Term?]
    • Catalan: mica
    • Occitan: mica
  • → Alemannic German: Miigge

• mica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from Latin mīca. Compare the inherited doublet miga.

mica f (plural micas)

1. (mineralogy) mica (hydrous aluminosilicate mineral)

• micela
• miga
• migalha

mica

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of micar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of micar

• IPA^(key): [ˈmi.ka]

mica

1. definite nominative feminine singular of mic
2. definite accusative feminine singular of mic

Borrowed from Latin mīca. Compare the inherited doublet miga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmika/

mica f (plural micas)

1. (mineralogy) mica

• micáceo
• miga, migaja