coca

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See also: Coca, COCA, cóca, còca, cocã, cocă, coça, and côca

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

The leaves and fruit of a coca plant.

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Noun

coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

  1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.

Noun

coca (plural cocas)

  1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
    • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times‎:
      A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.

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Catalan

Etymology 1

coca de Sant Joan

Borrowed from Old Dutch coca, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, related to English cake.

Pronunciation

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

  1. (cooking) coca (pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas)
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Descendants
  • → English: coca

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Quechua koka.

Pronunciation

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

  1. (botany) coca (Erythroxylum coca)
  2. (colloquial) coke (cocaine)
    Synonym: cocaïna
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Etymology 3

Inherited from Old Catalan coca, from Old French coque, ultimately from Latin caudica (“small ship made of tree trunks”).

Pronunciation

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

  1. (nautical, historical) cog (type of sailing ship)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoː.kaː/
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  • Hyphenation: co‧ca

Noun

coca f (plural coca's)

  1. coca, plant of the family Erythroxylaceae
  2. (uncountable) coca, consumable leaves of these plants

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Descendants

  • → Indonesian: koka

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Apocope of Coca-Cola

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

  1. Coke (serving of Coca-Cola)
  2. cola; (serving of any cola drink)
    • 2019 January 17, Amélie Petitdemange, “Dry January, Lundi Vert… des Millennials de plus en plus healthy ?”, in Les Echos:
      “Quand tu commandes un coca dans un bar, t’as l’air bizarre”, abonde Camille, étudiante en journalisme.
      "When you order a Coke in a bar, you look weird," agrees Camille, a journalism student.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

  1. coca (plant)
  2. (informal) cocaine

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Galician

Coca parade, Redondela, Galicia

Etymology 1

From cocatriz, probably from Old French cocatriz, from Latin calcātrīx.

Pronunciation

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

  1. (mythology, folklore) cockatrice, in Galician folklore a water creature
    Synonym: cocatriz
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:
      de baleas, de cocas, de orças et de todoslos outros pescados quea ẽnas agoas
      of whales, of cockatrices, of orcas and of all the other fishes that are in the waters
    • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:
      que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa
      they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt , then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

Pronunciation

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (plant)
  2. (informal, drugs) cocaine

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. Alternative form of coco
  2. claw (pincer of a crustacean)

Etymology 4

From a Germanic language (compare English cog).

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. (historical) cog (a clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged, single-masted mediaeval ship of burden)

References

  • “coca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “coq” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “coca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “coca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “coca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
  • Hyphenation: co‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish coca.

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
  2. coca (dried leaf of Erythroxylon coca)

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Coca-Cola.

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. Coke

Etymology 3

Clipping of cocaína.

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

  1. (slang) coke (cocaine)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coca, from Spanish, from Quechua.

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

  1. coca plant

See also

Southern Ndebele

Verb

-coca

  1. to chat, to discuss

Inflection

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoka/
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Syllabification: co‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua koka or Aymara kuka (“coca”).

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America)
  2. coca (the dried leaf of one of these plants)
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Clipping of cocaína (“cocaine”).

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) coke, cocaine
    Synonyms: cocaína, perico, farlopa
    Coordinate terms: meta, hierba

Etymology 3

Clipping of English Coca-Cola.

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. Coke (Coca-Cola, a trademarked soft drink)

Further reading

Swazi

Etymology

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Verb

-coca

  1. to chat

Inflection

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Vietnamese

Noun

coca

  1. Alternative spelling of côca.

Xhosa

Etymology

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Verb

-coca

  1. to become clean

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