mic

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mic"

Translingual

Symbol

mic

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Mi'kmaq.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Mi'kmaq terms

English

Etymology

Abbreviation of microphone. Attested since 1961.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪk/
• Rhymes: -aɪk

Noun

mic (plural mics)

1. Alternative form of mike (“microphone”)
   • 1987, Eric B. & Rakim, I Know You Got Soul:

     Picture a mic, the stage is empty
     A beat like this might tempt me
     To pose, show my rings and my fat gold chain
     Grab the mic like I'm on Soul Train

Derived terms

• eat the mic

 

Verb

mic (third-person singular simple present mics, present participle micing or mic'ing, simple past and past participle miced or mic'd or mic'ed)

1. Alternative form of mike

   If we add the drum kit, we'll have to mic the orchestra.

   • 2002, Darren Brown with Jackie Bushman, Hunting Trophy Whitetails, page 167:

     At 11:00 am, Doug mics up with me on the radio, and I advise him to go back to camp to get a quad, that we have a monster down.

   • 2003, Sleazegrinder, Gigs from Hell: True Tales of Rock and Roll Gone Wrong, page 104:

     Imagine playing a venue the size of an aircraft hangar without your tiny amps miced up through the PA!

   • 2006, Sarah Davis with Dave Laing, The guerilla guide to the music business, page 164:

     This lacks the gut-punch of miced-up bass but hopefully the player can rise to the challenge and give his or her take extra energy to make up for it.

   • 2007, Trev Wilkins, Access all areas: a real world guide to gigging and touring, page 101:

     Dynamics are used extensively for vocals, drums, and 'micing up' amplifiers such as guitar amps but they can be used for almost any application.

   • 2009, Francis Rumsey with Tim McCormick, Sound and Recording, page 51:

     but it is extremely useful in applications such as vocals, drums, and the micing-up of guitar amplifiers.

Derived terms

• mic up

References

• “On Language: How Should ‘Microphone’ be Abbreviated?”, in New York Times, 2010 July 29

Anagrams

• CIM, CMI, ICM, IMC, MCI

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲɪc/

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Mutated forms of mic

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mic	mhic	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Romanian mic, Aromanian njic.

Adjective

mic

1. small

Antonyms

• mari

Middle Irish

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Mutation of mic

radical	lenition	nasalization
mic	mic pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [maɪk], [mɪkː]

Noun

mic m

1. (slang) microphone

Romanian

Alternative forms

• мик (mic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic. Cf. also Sicilian nicu, Calabrian Neapolitan miccu, Corsican micca, also Italian miccino. May also be related to Latin mīca (“crumb”); compare mică.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mik/

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• Rhymes: -ik

Adjective

mic m or n (feminine singular mică, plural mici)

1. little, small

   Antonym: mare

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	mic		mică		mici	mici
	definite	micul		mica		micii	micile
genitive/ dative	indefinite	mic		mici		mici	mici
	definite	micului		micii		micilor	micilor

Derived terms

• micșora
• mici
• mititel
• micuț

Noun

mic m (plural mici, feminine equivalent mică)

1. little boy, child, toddler, tyke, baby

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	mic	micul		mici	micii
genitive-dative	mic	micului		mici	micilor
vocative	micule			micilor

See also

• prunc, băiat

Noun

mic m (plural mici)

1. (often in the plural) a dish from Romanian cuisine, consisting of a grilled ground meat roll in cylindrical shape made from a mixture of beef, lamb and pork with spices

   Synonym: mititel

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miʰkʲ/

Noun

mic m

1. inflection of mac (“son”):
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative plural

Mutation

Mutation of mic

radical	lenition
mic	mhic

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Swedish

Noun

mic c

1. (slang) microphone
   • 2006, Mattias Bylund, “Stråk-vals”, in Bylunds Blog‎^[1]:

     Funkar inte hans mic?

     Doesn't his mic work?

References

• korpus