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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]acca (plural accas)
- (slang) An accumulator bet.
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]acca (plural accas)
- (Australia, slang) An academic.
- 1979, Meanjin, volume 38, page 184:
- […] a faintly anglophiliac university atmosphere: the polarities threaten to split the character apart. The tensions would have been particularly interesting if the accas hadn't been so corrupt.
- 2011, Don Graham, State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents, page 155:
- […] academics (or accas as the Aussies call them) […]
Anagrams
[edit]Hausa
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Mangas asha, Bura acà.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]accā̀ f (possessed form accàr̃)
Descendants
[edit]- English: acha
References
[edit]- Paul Newman, A Hausa-English Dictionary (2007)
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *acca (“aitch”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]acca f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.; aitch
See also
[edit]- (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta
Anagrams
[edit]Old Irish
[edit]Verb
[edit]·acca
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
·acca (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | ·n-acca |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scots
[edit]Noun
[edit]acca (uncountable)
- Alternative form of ackwa
References
[edit]- “acca, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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