Corsica

Borrowed from Latin Corsica, from Ancient Greek Κορσική (Korsikḗ).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹsɪkə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːsɪkə/

Corsica

1. An island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia.

• Corsican

• Caricos, crocias, scoriac

Borrowed from Latin Corsica (from Ancient Greek Κορσίς (Korsís)).

• (Upper Corsica) IPA^(key): /ˈkorsiɡa/
• (Southern Corsica) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrsiɡa/, /ˈkɔrsika/

Corsica f

1. Corsica (an island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia)

• corsu

Ultimately from Latin Corsica, from Ancient Greek Κορσική (Korsikḗ). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.si.kaː/

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• Hyphenation: Cor‧si‧ca

Corsica n

1. Corsica (an island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia)

• Corsicaan

From Latin Corsica, from Ancient Greek Κορσική (Korsikḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔr.si.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔrsika
• Hyphenation: Còr‧si‧ca

Corsica f

1. Corsica (an island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia)

• accorsi, carsico, ricasco, ricascò, scarico, scaricò, scorcia

From Ancient Greek Κορσική (Korsikḗ), mentioned in Homer's Odyssey.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.si.ka/, [ˈkɔrs̠ɪkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.si.ka/, [ˈkɔrsikä]

Corsica f sg (genitive Corsicae); first declension

1. Corsica (an island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Corsica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Corsica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Geographiae Libri VIII: Librum tertium continens, Volume 3

Corsica

1. Corsica (an island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia); form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by Korsika

Corsica

1. Corsica (an island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia); (pre-2005) alternative form of Korsika