porca
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin porca (“sow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɔɾkɐ]
Noun
porca f (plural porcas)
- sow
- 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:
- cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.
- a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight bushels of legume, beans and peas; and two iron bushels of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 tackles of ships that he had in pawn for 600 mor.
- cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.
- 1291, E. Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:
- (figurative) an untidy, unclean woman
- a swelling
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 75:
- son chamadas llandooas o scrofullas que dizen porcas
- they are named tonsils or scrofulas that they call porcas
- son chamadas llandooas o scrofullas que dizen porcas
- 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 75:
Derived terms
- porcalla
Adjective
porca
- feminine singular of porco
Etymology 2
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese porca, probably from Latin porca (“ridge”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpɔɾkɐ]
Noun
porca f (plural porcas)
- nut (for a bolt)
- a children's traditional game, loosely related to golf, whose goal is a hole in the ground
- earth left undisturbed after digging
References
- “porca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “porca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “porca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “porca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “porca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔr.ka/
- Rhymes: -ɔrka
- Hyphenation: pòr‧ca
Etymology 1
From Latin porca (“balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”).
Noun
porca f (plural porche)
- the ridge between two furrows; balk
- Synonym: (Northern Italy) prosa
Etymology 2
From Latin porca (“sow”).
Noun
porca f (plural porche)
- sow
- Synonyms: scrofa, troia, maiala
- (figurative) a lascivious or lewd woman
Related terms
- porco
Adjective
porca f sg
- feminine singular of porco
Derived terms
- porca puttana
Anagrams
- -carpo, capro, carpo, carpo-, copra, parco, parcò
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.ka/, [ˈpɔrkä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpor.ka/, [ˈpɔrkä]
Etymology 1
Feminine of porcus.
Noun
porca f (genitive porcae); first declension
- sow (female pig)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | porca | porcae |
Genitive | porcae | porcārum |
Dative | porcae | porcīs |
Accusative | porcam | porcās |
Ablative | porcā | porcīs |
Vocative | porca | porcae |
Synonyms
- (female pig): scrōfa
- (female or male pig): sūs
Related terms
- (male pig): porcus
Descendants
- Aromanian: poarcã
- Catalan: porca
- Galician: porca
- Italian: porca
- Megleno-Romanian: poarcă
- Mirandese: puorca
- Neapolitan: puorca
- Occitan: pòrca
- Portuguese: porca
- Romanian: poarcă
- Sicilian: porca
- Spanish: puerca
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare English furrow. Doublet of riga.
Noun
porca f (genitive porcae); first declension
- (agriculture) the ridge between two furrows; a balk
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | porca | porcae |
Genitive | porcae | porcārum |
Dative | porcae | porcīs |
Accusative | porcam | porcās |
Ablative | porcā | porcīs |
Vocative | porca | porcae |
Descendants
- Galician: porca
- Italian: porca
- Romanian: porcoi
- Old Spanish: puerca
- Spanish: aporcar
References
- “porca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “porca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- porca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- porca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “porca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese porca, from Latin porca (“sow”), feminine of porcus (“pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *porḱ- (“young swine, young pig”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɔʁ.kɐ/ [ˈpɔh.kɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾ.kɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈpɔʁ.kɐ/ [ˈpɔχ.kɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɻ.ka/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɾ.kɐ/
- Hyphenation: por‧ca
Noun
porca f (plural porcas)
- sow; female equivalent of porco
- nut (that fits on a bolt)
- Synonym: rosca
Coordinate terms
- (nut): parafuso
Derived terms
- porca-marinha
Related terms
- porcaria
- porco