paca

Via Spanish paca and Portuguese paca, from Guaraní paka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpækə/

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• Rhymes: -ækə

paca (plural pacas)

1. Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides.

• gibnut (Belize)
• labba (Guyana)
• royal rat

• lowland paca (Cuniculus paca)
• mountain paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii)
• pacarana

• Cuniculus hernandezi
• paca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AACP, ACPA, APAC, APCA, CAAP, CAPA, PAAc, capa

• IPA^(key): /paːka/

pāca

1. (transitive) to wash

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 244
• Campbell, R. Joe (1997) “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, archived from the original on 20 February 2011
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 182
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 228

From Arabic بَاعَ (bāʕa).

paca I (present pipece) (transitive)

1. to sell

From Arabic بَعْدُ (baʕdu).

paca

1. still, not yet

   yapati paca o sapi ― my father is still young at heart

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 161
• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 171

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpat͡sa/
• Rhymes: -at͡sa
• Hyphenation: pa‧ca

paca (accusative singular pacan, plural pacaj, accusative plural pacajn)

1. peaceful, not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil
2. peaceful, motionless and calm

• pacema

Formed through a semantic split from earlier poca (“inkspot”, originally “pig”). For a similar development, compare German Sau (“pig”, later “spot, inkspot”). First attested in 1871.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pa‧ca
• Rhymes: -t͡sɒ

paca (plural pacák)

1. (informal) inkspot

   Synonyms: tintafolt, tintapaca

• paca in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• paca in Ferenc Pusztai, editor, Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (ÉKsz.²), 2nd, expanded and revised edition, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003 (online searchable version under development).

• puca (Cois Fharraige)

Borrowed from Middle English pakke

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠɑkə/
• (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠakə/

paca m (genitive singular paca, nominative plural pacaí)

1. pack (bundle to be carried)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “paca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “paca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “paca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: pà‧ca

Via Spanish paca, from Guaraní paka.

paca m (invariable)

1. (zoology) paca

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paca

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

• capa

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

pācā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pācō

paca

1. inflection of pacati (“to cook”):
   1. second-person singular imperative active
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect active

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• Rhymes: -at͡sa
• Syllabification: pa‧ca
• Homophone: Paca

Deverbal from pacać.

paca f

1. (construction) trowel, smoother, skimmer (tool for applying a smooth layer of mortar, plaster, etc.)
2. (Chełmno, construction) unfired brick

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paca m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of pac

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paca

1. third-person singular present of pacać

• paca in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• paca in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “paca”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 390

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧ca

Borrowed from Old Tupi paka.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (Brazil) paca (rodent of the genus Cuniculus)
   1. (Brazil, by extension, cooking) dish made of its meat
2. (Brazil) mole cricket

   Synonyms: grilo-toupeira, (Brazil) paquinha, (Portugal) ralo

paca m (plural pacas)

1. (Brazil, derogatory) homosexual man
2. (Brazil, colloquial) naive (one that lacks worldly experience); a fool

paca m or f (plural pacas)

1. (colloquial) naive

• → English: paca
• → Galician: paca

Alternative form of pacas.

paca (not comparable)

1. (Brazil, familiar) a lot; super

Borrowed from Kabuverdianu paka.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (Cape Verde) mallet

From Middle French pacque, Old French pakke, from Dutch pak.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (dated) package

   Synonyms: pacote, embrulho

2. (dated) a kind of tree fom Portuguese India

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paca f (plural pacas)

1. (colloquial, Angola) money

• “paca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “paca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “paca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: pa‧ca

Borrowed from Old French pacque, from Middle Dutch pak, from Old Dutch *pakko, from Frankish *pakkō, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. bale (bundle)

   Synonyms: fardo, lío

Borrowed from Guaraní paka.

paca f (plural pacas, masculine paco, masculine plural pacos)

1. (chiefly Rioplatense and Paraguay) paca (rodent of the genus Cuniculus)

   Synonyms: (Colombian Amazonia) boruga, (Panama) conejo pintado, (Colombia) guagua, (Ecuador) guanta, (Northwestern Colombia) guartinaja, (Bolivia) jochi pintado, (Venezuela, Colombian Llanos) lapa, (Peru) majaz, tepezcuintle, (Mexico, Central America) tepezcuinte, (Northeastern Colombia) tinajo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. feminine singular of paco (“cop”)

paca f

1. feminine singular of paco

• “paca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024