ridica

ridica

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of ridire
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of ridire
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of ridire
4. third-person singular imperative of ridire

• darici, idrica, radici, ricadi

Uncertain. A doubtful connection with Ancient Greek ἐρείδω (ereídō, “I prop, support”) is sometimes suggested.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈri.di.ka/, [ˈrɪ.dɪ.ka]

ridica f (genitive ridicae); first declension

1. (agriculture) A stake, a vine-prop

First-declension noun.

• ridicula

• Galician: rodriga
• Romanian: ridica (possibly)
• Spanish: rodrigón

• ridica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ridica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• rădica (archaic or regional), râdica (obsolete), aridica (obsolete)

Probably from Latin ērādīcāre, present active infinitive of ērādīcō (“root out, eradicate”) (and thus a doublet of the borrowing eradica). Another possibility is Late Latin or Vulgar Latin ridicāre (“tie a vine, e.g. in a vineyard”) (attested from a late gloss), from ridica (“stake; prop; vine-prop”); cf. also Spanish rodrigón. The semantic development in this case would pertain to how vines were set up in Romanian vineyards traditionally, using a trunk for the vines and stakes to support them; in the winter they would be lowered covered with a layer of earth to protect from the cold, but in spring would be raised again on the stakes or props. Less likely etymologies proposed include a Vulgar Latin *rigidicāre, from rigidus, or *adrecticāre[1]. Compare Megleno-Romanian rădic, ardic, ardicare.

a ridica (third-person singular present ridică, past participle ridicat) 1st conj.

1. to lift, elevate, raise, hoist, suspend
2. to increase
3. to uplift
4. (reflexive) to get up, stand up, arise

• (get up): scula
• (raise): înălța

• ridicare
• ridicătură