lucanica

From Latin lūcānica.

lucanica (uncountable)

1. A short, fat, rustic pork sausage in Ancient Roman cuisine.

• Canicula

Feminine form of lūcānicus (“Lucanian”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luːˈkaː.ni.ka/, [ɫuːˈkaː.nɪ.ka]

lūcānica f (genitive lūcānicae); first declension

1. a kind of sausage, Lucanian sausage, lucanica
   • c. 45 CE – 96 CE, Statius, Silvae 4.9.20–36:

     Sed Bruti senis oscitationes de capsa miseri libellionis emptum plus minus asse Gaiano, donas. […] non lucanica, non graves falisci, non sal oxyporumve caseusve?

     But no, you send me Brutus’ boring stuff, bought for about a Caligulan as from a poor bookseller’s bag. […] Wasn’t there Lucanian boloney, no heavy Faliscian sujuks, no salt, carminative, or cheese?

First declension.

• → Basque: lukainka
• → Byzantine Greek: λουκάνικα (loukánika), λουκάνικον (loukánikon)
  • Greek: λουκάνικο (loukániko)
  • → Albanian: llukanik
  • → Aramaic: לוקניק‎ (lūqānīq), נוקניק‎ (nūqānīq)
    • → Arabic: نَقَانِق‎ (naqāniq), لَقَانِق‎ (laqāniq)
      • ⇒ Arabic: مَقَانِق‎ (maqāniq)
    • → Hebrew: נַקְנִיק‎ (naqnīq)
    • → Persian: نکانک‎ (nakânak)
  • → Bulgarian: луканка (lukanka)
  • → Macedonian: луканец (lukanec)
    • → Aromanian: lucánic, lucánica, culucancu
      • → Romanian: lucanică (rare)
• Catalan: llonganissa, llangonissa
• Galician: longaínza, lengüiza, longüiza, longaniza
• Italian: lucanica
• Portuguese: linguiça, lingüiça
• Spanish: longaniza, longariza
  • → Cebuano: longganisa
  • → Tagalog: longganisa
• Venetian: luganega, ługànega, luganiga
  • → Italian: luganega, luganiga

lūcānica

1. nominative feminine singular of lūcānicus
2. nominative neuter plural of lūcānicus
3. accusative neuter plural of lūcānicus
4. vocative feminine singular of lūcānicus
5. vocative neuter plural of lūcānicus

lūcānicā

1. ablative feminine singular of lūcānicus