Italian

Noun

plico m ‎(plural plichi)

1. parcel, packet
2. cover

Related terms

• piegare
• plica

References

1. ↑ http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/plico/

Anagrams

• colpi, colpì

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- ‎(“to plait, to weave”) (with i from the compounded forms). Cognate with Latin plectō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpli.koː/, [ˈplɪ.koː]

Verb

plicō ‎(present infinitive plicāre, perfect active plicui, supine plicātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) I fold, bend or flex; I roll up
2. (transitive) I arrive (this meaning comes from sailors, for whom the folding of a ship’s sails meant arrival on land)

Inflection

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Descendants

References

• plico in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plico in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “plico”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag