forca

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾka/,
• Rhymes: -oɾka
• Hyphenation: for‧ca

forca f (plural forques)

1. forked pole

   Synonym: forcáu

2. pitchfork

   Synonyms: forqueta, forcada, forcáu

3. gallows

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -oɾka
• Hyphenation: for‧ca

Inherited from Latin furca (compare Occitan forca, French fourche, Spanish horca).

forca f (plural forques)

1. fork, pitchfork (for gardening)
2. gallows

• a la quinta forca
• forcadura
• forcall
• forcar
• forcó
• forqueta
• forquilla

• “forca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “forca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “forca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “forca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

forca

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

• furca

From Old Galician-Portuguese forca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin furca (“pitchfork”). Cognate with Portuguese forca and Spanish horca).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾka/
• Rhymes: -ɔɾka
• Hyphenation: for‧ca

forca f (plural forcas)

1. pole
   • 1339, M. Mar Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 127:

     que a deuedes dar chantada de vina et ben fercada et [. . ] con forcas et linoos ao pelongo et latas ao traues

     you should plant vines and have it correctly kept with gallows and strings all along, and beams crosswise

2. gallows pole
3. pitchfork

   Synonym: forcada

4. defile, ravine

• enforcar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “forca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “forca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “forca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “forca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “forca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin furca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.ka/
• Rhymes: -orka
• Hyphenation: fór‧ca

forca f (plural forche)

1. fork (instrument used in agriculture and gardening)
2. pitchfork
3. gallows, hanging tree

• forcella

• cafro

Inherited from Latin furca.

• (Naples) IPA^(key):
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key):

forca f (plural forche)

1. fork

From Proto-West Germanic *furkō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.kɑ/,

forca m

1. fork

• forcel

• Middle English: forke
  • English: fork

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “forca”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Old Galician-Portuguese forca, from Latin furca.

• Hyphenation: for‧ca

forca f (plural forcas)

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
2. (games) hangman

   Synonym: jogo da forca

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork”). Doublet of forc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrˠxkə/

forca f (genitive singular fuirce, plural forcan)

1. fork

   Synonyms: greimire, forc

Borrowed from Italian forza, from Late Latin fortia, ultimately from Latin fortis.

• IPA^(key): /fôːrt͡sa/
• Hyphenation: for‧ca

fȏrca f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рца)

1. (regional) force

   Synonym: sila

2. (regional) strength

   Synonym: snaga