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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin porca (“sow”).

Pronunciation

Noun

porca f (plural porcas)

  1. sow
    • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:
      cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.
      a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight bushels of legume, beans and peas; and two iron bushels of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 tackles of ships that he had in pawn for 600 mor.
  2. (figurative) an untidy, unclean woman
  3. a swelling
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 75:
      son chamadas llandooas o scrofullas que dizen porcas
      they are named tonsils or scrofulas that they call porcas
Derived terms

Adjective

porca

  1. feminine singular of porco

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese porca, probably from Latin porca (“ridge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

porca f (plural porcas)

  1. nut (for a bolt)
  2. a children's traditional game, loosely related to golf, whose goal is a hole in the ground
  3. earth left undisturbed after digging

References

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

Italian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin porca (“balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”).

Noun

porca f (plural porche)

  1. the ridge between two furrows; balk
    Synonym: (Northern Italy) prosa

Etymology 2

From Latin porca (“sow”).

Noun

porca f (plural porche)

  1. sow
    Synonyms: scrofa, troia, maiala
  2. (figurative, vulgar, derogatory) a lascivious or lewd woman
Related terms

Adjective

porca f sg

  1. feminine singular of porco
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Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Feminine of porcus.

Noun

porca f (genitive porcae); first declension

  1. sow (female pig)
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative porca porcae
Genitive porcae porcārum
Dative porcae porcīs
Accusative porcam porcās
Ablative porcā porcīs
Vocative porca porcae
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Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare English furrow. Doublet of riga.

Noun

porca f (genitive porcae); first declension

  1. (agriculture) the ridge between two furrows; a balk; a lynchet
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative porca porcae
Genitive porcae porcārum
Dative porcae porcīs
Accusative porcam porcās
Ablative porcā porcīs
Vocative porca porcae
Descendants

References

  • “porca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “porca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • porca 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)
  • porca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “porca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porca, from Latin porca (“sow”), feminine of porcus (“pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *porḱ- (“young swine, young pig”).

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: por‧ca

Noun

porca f (plural porcas)

  1. sow; female equivalent of porco
  2. nut (that fits on a bolt)
    Synonym: rosca

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Spanish

Noun

porca f (plural porcas)

  1. female equivalent of porco
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