furca

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Irish

Etymology

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Noun

furca m (genitive singular furca, nominative plural furcaí)

  1. wrinkle, pucker, fold

Declension

Declension of furca

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative furca furcaí
Vocative a fhurca a fhurcaí
Genitive furca furcaí
Dative furca furcaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an furca na furcaí
Genitive an fhurca na bhfurcaí
Dative leis an bhfurca

don fhurca

leis na furcaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
furca fhurca bhfurca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain origin. In its primary sense of "fork", Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

Pronunciation

Noun

furca f (genitive furcae); first declension

  1. A two-pronged fork, pitchfork.
  2. A fork-shaped prop, pole or stake.
  3. An instrument of punishment, a frame in the form of a fork, which was placed on a culprit's neck, while his hands were fastened to the two ends; yoke.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative furca furcae
Genitive furcae furcārum
Dative furcae furcīs
Accusative furcam furcās
Ablative furcā furcīs
Vocative furca furcae

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

See also

References

  • “furca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “furca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • furca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • furca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “furca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “furca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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