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See also: FOCA, Foça, and focă

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Etymology

    Borrowed from Latin phōca.

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    Noun

    foca f (plural foques)

    1. (mammals) seal
      Synonyms: llop marí m, llop de mar m, vell marí, serena
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    Galician

    Pronunciation

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    Etymology 1

    From foco (hollow).

    Noun

    foca f (plural focas)

    1. hole, piercing
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      • c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
        Mordesme en Papeliños,
        que leeron moitas Xentes:
        mordes me, chantasme os dentes
        chantame agora os focinos:
        si lendo estes meus termiños
        fixères xestos, ou mocas,
        ê contra min te desuocas,
        ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
        e focas no Corpo abrirme,
        Chantame as mocas nas focas.
        You bite me in little papers
        that many people have read
        You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
        Thrust now your snout
        If reading these my terms
        You do gestures or grimaces
        and against me you run off at the mouth
        and with clubs you want to injure me
        and holes in my body open
        Thrust the clubs into my holes

    Etymology 2

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      Learned borrowing from Latin phōca f, from Ancient Greek φώκη f (phṓkē).

      Noun

      foca f (plural focas)

      1. (mammals) seal
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      Etymology

        (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Inherited from Latin phōca f, from Ancient Greek φώκη f (phṓkē).

        Compare French phoque m.

        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.ka/
        • Rhymes: -ɔka
        • Hyphenation: fò‧ca

        Noun

        foca f (plural foche)

        1. (mammals) seal
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          Synonym: vecchio marino m
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        • foca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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        foca

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        • Hyphenation: fo‧ca
        • Rhymes: -ɔkɐ

        Etymology 1

          (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Borrowed from Latin phōca f, from Ancient Greek φώκη f (phṓkē).

          Noun

          foca f (plural focas)

          1. (mammals) seal
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          foca m or f by sense (plural focas)

          1. (Brazil, journalism) a journalist at the start of his/her career
            • 1989, Paulo Rangel, O Assassinato do Conto Policial, FTD, →ISBN, page 10:
              — Por falar nisso, sabe o que é um foca?
              — Sei — disse Cotoxó.
              — Que é? Diga!
              Foca é um repórter em início de carreira, que ganha mal, se veste mal, come mal, escreve mal, só diz bobagens, não tem cultura, é tido como idiota e um dia se torna chefe da redação.
              “By the way, do you know what a seal is?”
              “Yes”, said Cotoxó.
              “What is it? Tell me!”
              “A seal is a reporter at the beginning of his career, who earns badly, dresses badly, eats badly, writes badly, says nothing but nonsense, has no culture, is considered an idiot and one day becomes head of the newsroom.”
          2. an avaricious individual
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          Etymology 2

          See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

          Verb

          foca

          1. inflection of focar:
            1. third-person singular present indicative
            2. second-person singular imperative
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          Romanian

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          Noun

          foca f

          1. definite nominative/accusative singular of focă
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          La foca besó al capitán en la mejilla.The seal kissed the captain on the cheek.

          Etymology

            (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Inherited from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

            Pronunciation

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            Particularly: "besides Colombia"
            • IPA(key): /ˈfoka/
            • Audio (Colombia):(file)
            • Rhymes: -oka
            • Syllabification: fo‧ca

            Noun

            foca f (plural focas)

            1. seal (animal belonging to the parvorder Pinnipedia of semi-aquatic marine mammals)
              Synonyms: lobo marino, lobo del mar
              • 1621, Lope de Vega Carpio, “La Andromeda”, in La Filomena con otras diuerſas Rimas, Proſas y Verſos [The Filomena with Other Diverse Rhymes, Proses and Verses], Madrid: Francisca de Medina, page 106:
                Con fieras anſias, con mayor trabajo,
                La Foca ſepultaua la grandeza
                Del monſtruoſo cuerpo entre las olas,
                Si bien moſtraua ya las fuentes ſolas.
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              • 1932, M[iguel] Mihura, “Tres sombreros de copa”, in Tres sombreros de copa [Three Top Hats], Editora Nacional, published 1947, Act I:
                Estoy tan acostumbrado a bañarme en Noruega, que no puedo habituarme a estar en el agua sin tener un par de focas junto a mí.
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            2. (colloquial) whale (fat person)
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            Derived terms

            Descendants

            • Tagalog: poka
            • Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca

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            Further reading

            Tetelcingo Nahuatl

            Etymology

              (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Borrowed from Spanish foca.

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              Noun

              foca (plural focas)

              1. seal (animal)