vesica
/ˈvɛsɪkə/noun
vesica is a noun meaning “A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-S-I-C-A, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vesica is vesicas or vesicae.
What does vesica mean?
noun
- 1
A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
- 2
The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vesica?
- /ˈvɛsɪkə/
- /ˈviːsɪkə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vesica
- vesicas plural
- vesicae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vesica?
Vesica appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Vesica in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense bladder:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does vesica come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).