pica

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌɪkə/[1]
• (US) enPR: pīkə, IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪkə/[1]
• Rhymes: -aɪkə

From Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea that magpies will eat almost anything).

pica (usually uncountable, plural picas)

1. (pathology) A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand.
   • 1986, George S Baroff, Mental retardation: nature, cause, and management:

     The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.

• chthonophagia
• cittosis
• allotriophagy
• geophagy

From Medieval Latin pica (“pica: a service book”), possibly from Latin pīca (“magpie”) after the piebald appearance of the typeset page (cf. pie, "disordered type"). The relation to the printer's measure is unclear, as no edition of the text in pica type is known. The French pica derives from English rather than vice versa.[1]

pica (countable and uncountable, plural picas)

1. (typography, printing, uncountable) A size of type between small pica and English, standardized as 12-point.
2. (typography, uncountable, usually with qualifier) A font of this size.
3. (typography, countable) A unit of length equivalent to 12 points, officially ³⁵⁄₈₃ cm (0.166 in) after 1886 but now (computing) ¹⁄₆ in.
4. (uncommon, ecclesiastical) A pie or directory: the book directing Roman Catholic observance of saints' days and other feasts under various calendars.

• cicero
• em
• en
• point

pica (plural picas)

1. Archaic form of pika. (small lagomorph)
   • 1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History (volume 3, page 190)

     Most travellers in the Himalaya are familiar with the pretty little Rodents, known as picas, tailless hares, or mouse-hares, which may be seen in the higher regions […]

pica (plural picas)

1. A magpie.

• ACPI, apic, capi, paci

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

pica f (plural piques)

1. bowl
2. sink

pica f (plural piques)

1. pike (weapon)
2. spade (playing card)

pica f (uncountable)

1. pica (disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances)

pica f (plural piques)

1. peak, summit

   Synonyms: pic, cim, cima

pica f (plural piques)

1. pika (small, furry mammal)

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

pica m (plural picas)

1. pipit
2. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

pica

1. third-person singular present indicative of comer
2. second-person singular imperative of comer

• peca

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.ka/

pīca f (genitive pīcae); first declension

1. magpie

First declension.

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

pica f (4th declension)

1. pizza

From Proto-Slavic *piťa.

pica f

1. fodder, forage

pica f (plural picas)

1. (slang) dick; prick; penis
2. (Portugal) jab (medical injection)

pica

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

Borrowed from English pic.

pica f (plural picas)

1. (Internet slang) pic (short for picture, meaning image)

From pic. Compare also Aromanian chicu, chicare.

a pica (third-person singular present pică, past participle picat) 1st conj.

1. (of a liquid) to drip
2. (literally and figuratively) to fall
3. to fail
4. to come unexpectedly

• (drip): picura
• (fall): cădea

• picătură

Hypocoristic form derived from pízda (“cunt”).

• IPA^(key): /pǐːtsa/
• Hyphenation: pi‧ca

píca f (Cyrillic spelling пи́ца)

1. (vulgar, hypocoristic) cunt, pussy

From Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /pîtsa/
• Hyphenation: pi‧ca

pȉca f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏ца)

1. pizza

Borrowed from Italian pizza.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpìːtsa/, /ˈpíːtsa/
• Tonal orthography: píca, pȋca

píca f (genitive píce, nominative plural píce)

1. pizza

pica f (plural picas)

1. pike, lance
2. pick (digging tool)
3. (card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)

• sacar picas

pica

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of picar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of picar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of picar.