phoca

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See also: Phoca and phóca

English

Etymology

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Pronunciation

Noun

phoca (plural phocas or phocae)

  1. (obsolete) A seal.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      His charet swift in haste he thither steard,
      Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound
      Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.
    • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 68:
      With tangled fins, behind, huge Phocæ glide,
      And Whales and Grampi swell the distant tide.

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Pronunciation

Noun

phōca f (genitive phōcae); first declension

  1. seal (marine animal)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative phōca phōcae
Genitive phōcae phōcārum
Dative phōcae phōcīs
Accusative phōcam phōcās
Ablative phōcā phōcīs
Vocative phōca phōcae

Descendants

  • Arabic: فُقْمَة (fuqma)
  • English: phoca
  • → French: phoque
  • Italian: foca
  • Hungarian: fóka
  • Portuguese: foca
  • Romanian: focă
  • Spanish: foca
    • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca
  • Translingual: Phoca

References

  • “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • phoca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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