forca

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

forca f (plural forques)

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

Derived terms

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

References

• “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.

Etymology 2

Verb

forca

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

Galician

Alternative forms

• furca

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾka̝/

Noun

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

Derived terms

• enforcar

Related terms

References

• “forca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “forca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “forca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “forca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “forca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin furca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

forca f (plural forche)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• forcella

Anagrams

• cafro

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin furca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

forca f (plural forche)

1. fork

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *furkō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.kɑ/,

Noun

forca m

1. fork

Declension

Related terms

• forcel

Descendants

• Middle English: forke
  • English: fork

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese forca, from Latin furca.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: for‧ca

Noun

forca f (plural forcas)

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

   Synonym: jogo da forca

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrˠxkə/

Noun

forca f (genitive singular fuirce, plural forcan)

1. fork

   Synonyms: greimire, forc

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fȏrca f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рца)

1. (regional) force

   Synonym: sila

2. (regional) strength

   Synonym: snaga