Italian

Adjective

empirica

1. feminine singular of empirico

Anagrams

• emicarpi, imprecai, piacermi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /emˈpiː.ri.ka/, [ɛmˈpiː.rɪ.ka]

Etymology 1

Noun

empīrica n pl ‎(genitive empīricōrum); second declension

1. any treatise on medicine written by an empiricus
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

Second declension.

Related terms

• empīricē
• empīricus

References

• empīrĭca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “2 empīrĭca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 587/1.
• “empīricus · c” on page 606/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Etymology 2

Latinisation of the Grecian first-declension endings (-ē, -ēs, etc.) to those of the regular Latin first declension (-a, -ae, etc.).

Noun

empīrica f ‎(genitive empīricae); first declension

1. Alternative form of empīricē

Declension

First declension.