Clitica

Clitica is not a widely recognized term on its own in major reference works. Depending on context, it may refer to different things, including a misspelling or variant of clitic, or to a proper noun in a language, brand, or dataset. Because there is no single standard definition, context is essential.

In linguistics, a clitic is a morpheme that has the syntactic properties of a word but is phonologically dependent on a host word. Clitics often attach to other words to form contracted forms or to supply unstressed function words such as pronouns. They can be proclitic, appearing before the host, or enclitic, following the host. Examples include unstressed pronouns in various languages and contractions like it's (it is) in English. Clitic behavior is distinguished from affixes by its syntactic behavior and fixed position relative to the host.

In other uses, "clitica" could be a feminine adjective form in Romance languages or a proper name in a specific language or context, but such usage varies and is not standard in linguistic terminology. If you have a particular field, language, or example in mind, providing it will help generate a precise definition.