English

Noun

tricae

1. plural of trica

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- ‎(“to turn”).^[1] Cognate to Latin torqueō.

Noun

trīcae f pl ‎(genitive trīcārum); first declension

1. (plural only) trifles, toys, trumpery
2. (plural only) hindrances, impediments

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• extrīcō
• intrīcō
• prōtrīcō
• trīcō
• trīcor

Descendants

• Portuguese: trica

References

• tricae in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tricae in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tricae”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• extricate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

1. ↑ Shipley, The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, p. 408