plico

Created by chanceries in the 15th century from a stem of Latin plicāre (“to fold”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpli.ko/
• Rhymes: -iko
• Hyphenation: plì‧co

plico m (plural plichi)

1. parcel, packet
2. cover

• piegare
• plica

• colpi, colpì

According to de Vaan, likely a back-formation from compound verbs formed from the stem *-plek-ā-, which themselves were likely formed from compound adjectives. Ultimately from the root Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”) (with i from its compounds, which had much use), itself an extension of Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to wrap”). Cognate with plectō.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈplɪ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpliː.ko]

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

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

• A regularized perfect plicāvī is occasionally found in Medieval usage.

• “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
• “plico”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag