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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin posca.
Noun
posca (uncountable)
- A drink in Ancient Rome and Greece, made by mixing sour wine or vinegar with water and herbs.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
From Latin posca.
Pronunciation
Noun
posca f (plural posche)
- posca
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From pōtō, formed after ēsca.
Noun
pōsca f (genitive pōscae); first declension
- an acidulous drink of vinegar and water
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “posca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- posca 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)
- posca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “posca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “posca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Occitan
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
posca f (plural poscas)
- dust
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈposka/
- Rhymes: -oska
- Syllabification: pos‧ca
Noun
posca f (uncountable)
- (Ancient Rome) A mixture of vinegar and water
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