phoca
See also: Phoca and phóca
English
Etymology
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfəʊkə/
Noun
phoca (plural phocas or phocae)
- (obsolete) A seal. [16th–19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- His charet swift in haste he thither steard,
Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound
Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, p. 68:
- With tangled fins, behind, huge Phocæ glide,
And Whales and Grampi swell the distant tide.
- With tangled fins, behind, huge Phocæ glide,
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Anagrams
- copha, phaco, phaco-, poach
Latin
Alternative forms
- phōcē
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpʰoː.ka/, [ˈpʰoːkä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ka/, [ˈfɔːkä]
Noun
phōca f (genitive phōcae); first declension
- seal (marine animal)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | phōca | phōcae |
Genitive | phōcae | phōcārum |
Dative | phōcae | phōcīs |
Accusative | phōcam | phōcās |
Ablative | phōcā | phōcīs |
Vocative | phōca | phōcae |
Descendants
- English: phoca
- → French: phoque
- → Polish: foka
- → Romanian: focă
- → Turkish: fok
- Italian: foca
- Hungarian: fóka
- Portuguese: foca
- Romanian: focă
- Spanish: foca
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca
- → Tagalog: poka
- Translingual: Phoca
References
- “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- phoca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette