Parca

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See also: parca and parça

Italian

Etymology

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Proper noun

Parca m or f by sense

  1. a surname

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Suggestions include:

Proper noun

Parca f (genitive Parcae); first declension

  1. one of the Fates (one of the three goddesses who control destiny)
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.21–22:
      hinc populum, lātē rēgem bellōque superbum,
      ventūrum excidiō Libyae: sīc volvere Parcās.
      Because these people, wide-ruling and proud in war,
      would come to destroy Libya: The Fates thus to spin.
      (Rome would defeat Carthage in Libya; the Fates spun, measured and cut the metaphorical threads of life. See: Parcae. Notes: regem is an abbreviation of present active participle regentem or regnantem, “ruling”; bello is an ablative of respect, “in respect to war”; excidio is a dative of purpose, “for the destruction.” The grammar and idiom of sic volvere Parcas is variously interpreted, e.g.: “thus the Fates were spinning,” “the Fates had so decreed.”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Parca Parcae
genitive Parcae Parcārum
dative Parcae Parcīs
accusative Parcam Parcās
ablative Parcā Parcīs
vocative Parca Parcae

References

  • “Parca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Parca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Parca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 818

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaɾka/
  • Rhymes: -aɾka
  • Syllabification: Par‧ca

Proper noun

Parca f

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