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4-letter words (2 found)

CAMI,MICA,

3-letter words (5 found)

AIM,AMI,CAM,MAC,MIC,

2-letter words (4 found)

AI,AM,MA,MI,

You can make 11 words from mica according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of mica

mica imca mcia cmia icma cima miac imac maic amic iamc aimc mcai cmai maci amci cami acmi icam ciam iacm aicm caim acim

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Definitions and meaning of mica

mica

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɪ.kə/, enPR: mīkə
  • Rhymes: -aɪkə

Noun

mica (countable and uncountable, plural micas)

  2. (mineralogy) Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.

Derived terms

  • Formica

Translations

See also

  • biotite
  • lepidolite
  • muscovite
  • paragonite
  • phlogopite

Further reading

  • mica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • -amic, -icam, ACMI, CIMA, CMIA, Maci, aMCI, amic, cami, cima, iMac

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmi.kə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈmi.ka]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan mica, from Vulgar Latin *mīcca, from Latin mīca (“crumb”) with expression gemination of /k/. Compare Occitan mica.

Noun

mica f (plural miques)

  1. a bit, a small piece
Derived terms
  • de mica en mica
  • miqueta
  • una mica
  • una mica de

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

Noun

mica f (plural miques)

  1. (mineralogy) mica

References

  • “mica” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “mica”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “mica” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “mica” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mi‧ca

Noun

mica n (plural mica's)

  1. (mineralogy) mica

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca. Doublet of mie and miche.

Pronunciation

Noun

mica f (plural micas)

  1. (mineralogy) mica

Further reading

  • “mica”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca.

Noun

mica f (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy) mica

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Hyphenation: mì‧ca

Etymology 1

From Latin mīca, from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”).

Noun

mica f (plural miche)

  1. (archaic or literary) breadcrumb
  2. (by extension) bit, morsel
    Synonym: minuzzolo
Related terms
  • micella

Adverb

mica

  1. (colloquial) not
    Mica male! ― Not bad!
  2. (colloquial) hardly, you know
  3. (colloquial) bit
    Non è mica cambiato ― It hasn't changed one bit
  4. (colloquial) at all
    Non costa mica molto ― It is not at all expensive
  5. (colloquial) by any chance

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin mīca, the same source as the above.

Noun

mica f (plural miche)

  1. (mineralogy) mica (mineral)

Anagrams

  • cami, cima

Latin

Alternative forms

  • mīcca (attested in 1485, Du Cange)

Etymology

Uncertain:

  • traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *(s)mīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyk- (“small, thin, delicate”), related to Ancient Greek (σ)μῑκρός ((s)mīkrós) – details there.
  • in view of meaning (1), De Vaan (2008) with Nyman (1987) prefer Proto-Italic *meikā (“a glittering particle”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyk- (“to blink”), whence also micō.

Attested from Cato onwards.

A number of Romance forms, e.g. Romanian mic, Neapolitan miccu, Calabrian/Sicilian miccu, reflect an unattested adjective *mīccus. This is probably unrelated, being a borrowing from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós), variant of μῑκρός (mīkrós, “small”); the form *mīcca is associated with the meaning “loaf of bread” particularly in Gallo-Romance and Gallo-Italic.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmiː.ka/, [ˈmiːkä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ka/, [ˈmiːkä]

Noun

mīca f (genitive mīcae); first declension

  1. a grain (esp. a glittering one: of salt, marble, etc.), crumb
  2. (Medieval Latin, Gallia) a miche (a round loaf of brown bread)
  3. (New Latin, mineralogy) mica

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • mīcārius
  • mīcidus
  • mīcīna
  • mīcula
  • mīcō

Descendants

References

  • “mīca” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mīca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 378

Further reading

  • “mica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • mica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mi‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin mīca. Compare the inherited doublet miga.

Noun

mica f (plural micas)

  1. (mineralogy) mica (hydrous aluminosilicate mineral)
Related terms
  • micela
  • miga
  • migalha

Etymology 2

Verb

mica

  1. inflection of micar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmi.ka]
  • Rhymes: -ikɐ

Adjective

mica

  1. definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of mic

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīca. Compare the inherited doublet miga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmika/ [ˈmi.ka]
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Syllabification: mi‧ca

Noun

mica f (plural micas)

  1. (mineralogy) mica
  2. (playground games, uncountable, El Salvador) tag, it (children's chasing game)

Related terms

  • micáceo
  • miga, migaja

Further reading

  • “mica”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  • ¿Recuerdas cómo te divertías de pequeño? Estos son los juegos más tradicionales en El Salvador – Diario El Salvador
  • Los juegos tradicionales de El Salvador de nuestra infancia | Guanacos

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