carica, caricae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension · variant: 1st
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
- Geography:
- Near East
kind of fig; (Caria a country in south-west Asia Minor);
Inflections
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | carica | caricae |
| Gen. | caricae | caricarum |
| Dat. | caricae | caricis |
| Acc. | caricam | caricas |
| Voc. | carica | caricae |
| Abl. | carica | caricis |
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...belle deverbia, adicere melicam. Heu, heu, abistis dulces caricae. — Iam, inquit ille, quadrigae meae decucurrerunt, ex quo podagricus..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...seducta secundis: hic nux, hic mixta est rugosis carica palmis prunaque et in patulis redolentia mala canistris..."