phoca

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See also: Phoca and phóca

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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: ">…] 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

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    phōca f (genitive phōcae); first declension

    1. seal (marine animal)
      Synonym: vitulus marīnus
      saepe vēnātī phōcae ad escam.
      They often hunted seals for meat.

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative phōca phōcae
    genitive phōcae phōcārum
    dative phōcae phōcīs
    accusative phōcam phōcās
    ablative phōcā phōcīs
    vocative phōca phōcae

    Descendants

    • ? Arabic: فُقْمَة (fuqma)
    • Catalan: foca
    • English: phoca
    • Middle French: phoque m or f
    • ? Italian: foca f
    • Hungarian: fóka
    • ? Portuguese: foca f
    • >? Spanish: foca f
      • Tagalog: poka
      • 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.