spíce

• IPA^(key): [ˈspiːt͡sɛ]

spíce

1. plural present transgressive of spát

From Middle English spike, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic spìc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsˠpʲiːcɪ/^[1][2]

spíce m (genitive singular spíce, nominative plural spící)

1. spike (very large nail; anything resembling such a nail; sharp peak in a graph)
2. (botany) spica, spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spíce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “spíce”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 1098; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “spíce”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN