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Latin
Etymology
Unknown, only attested in Pliny the Elder and there connected as Gaulish.
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈrin.ka/,
Noun
arinca f (genitive arincae); first declension
- A kind of grain also called olyra
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “arinca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arinca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology
Related to arenque (“herring”), sharing a process in the fish's salting.
Noun
arinca f (plural arincas)
- haddock (marine fish)
- Synonyms: hadoque, eglefim
References
- Williams & Norgate (1864): An Etymological Dictionary of the Romance Languages; chiefly from the German of F. Diez. By T. C. Donkin