dumica

• думика (dumica) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
• demica, dimica — obsolete
• dumeca — regional

Probably from a Vulgar Latin root *dēmīcāre, from Latin mīca. Compare Aromanian dinjic, dinjicari.

• IPA^(key): /du.miˈka/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: du‧mi‧ca

a dumica (third-person singular present dumică, past participle dumicat, third-person subjunctive dumice) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive, of foods, especially polenta) to tear, usually to drop into a liquid (milk, stew) [with în ‘into’]
2. (ambitransitive, by extension) to eat
3. (transitive, archaic, of people) to chop up

   Synonym: ciopârți

4. (transitive, obsolete) to defeat on the battlefield
5. (transitive, obsolete, uncommon) to grind

   Synonyms: fărâmița, măcina

6. (reflexive, obsolete, figurative, of countries, properties) to fragment (fall apart)

   Synonyms: se fărâmița, se fragmenta

• dumicare
• dumicat
• dumicătură

• “dumica”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Marius Sala, Gheorghe Mihăilă, editors (2009), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 1, part 6, Bucharest: Romanian Academy, →ISBN, pages 1561–1562