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Is vesica a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word vesica is a Scrabble US word. The word vesica is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is vesica a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word vesica is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

V4E1S1I1C3A1

Is vesica a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word vesica is a Words With Friends word. The word vesica is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

CAVIES,VESICA,

5-letter words (6 found)

AVISE,CAVES,CAVIE,CIVES,SAICE,VICES,

4-letter words (21 found)

ACES,AESC,ASCI,AVES,CASE,CAVE,CEAS,CIVE,ICES,SAIC,SAVE,SICE,VACS,VAES,VASE,VIAE,VIAS,VICE,VIES,VISA,VISE,

3-letter words (21 found)

ACE,AIS,AVE,CIS,EAS,ICE,SAC,SAE,SAI,SAV,SEA,SEC,SEI,SEV,SIC,VAC,VAE,VAS,VIA,VIE,VIS,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AI,AS,EA,ES,IS,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 58 words from vesica according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of vesica

vesica

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛsɪkə/, IPA(key): /ˈviːsɪkə/

Noun

vesica (plural vesicae)

  1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
  2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • cavies

Interlingua

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas)

  1. bladder

Latin

Alternative forms

  • vessīca

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯eːˈsiː.ka/, [u̯eːˈs̠iːkä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈsi.ka/, [veˈs̬iːkä]

Noun

vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder
    vēsīca ūrīnāria ― urinary bladder

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • vēsīcō
  • vēsīcula

Descendants

(See also vessīca.)

  • Old Occitan: veziga (Quercy), vezica (Fois)
    • Occitan: vesiga (Ségala)
  • → English: vesica
  • → Romanian: vezică

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vēsīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 14: U–Z, page 341

Further reading

  • “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vesica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Source: wiktionary.org