bac

From French bac.

bac (plural bacs)

1. A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
2. A vat or cistern.

bac (plural bacs)

1. Clipping of baccalaureate.

• post-bac

• B. C. A., B.C.A., cab, Cab, CBA, A.B.C., ABC, cba, A. B. C., BCA, CAB

• bacë

1. Borrowed from South Slavic *bat'a rather than cognate with it.^[1]
2. From Proto-Albanian *batja. According to Orel bac/bacë could be related to Proto-Slavic *bat'a (“elder brother, uncle”) and Proto-Slavic *batja (“id”). Source of Romanian baci (“chief shepherd, cheese-maker”) and Megleno-Romanian/Aromanian batš (“id”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): [bat͡s]

bac m (plural bacë, definite baca, definite plural bacët)

1. elder brother
2. uncle

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbak]

bac m (plural bacs)

1. Alternative form of obac (“shady spot”)

Cognate with French bac.

bac m (plural bacs)

1. vat
2. ferry

• “bac” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbat͡s]

bac

1. second-person singular imperative of bacit

• IPA^(key): /bak/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: BAC

Inherited from Middle French bac, from Old French bas, bac- (“flat boat”), of obscure origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *baccu (“container”), from Latin bacar (“kind of wine glass”). Or, possibly borrowed from Celtic or Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *baką (“back, rear”).

bac m (plural bacs)

1. ferry
2. vat

• → Catalan: bac
• → Dutch: bak
  • Afrikaans: bak
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: baksi
  • Negerhollands: bak
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: bak, baks (archaic)
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: báki
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bak, bag
  • → Indonesian: bak, baki
    • → Javanese: ꦧꦏꦶ (baki)
    • → Ternate: baki
  • → Javanese: ꦧꦏ꧀ (bak)
  • → Papiamentu: baki (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: baki
    • → Caribbean Javanese: baki
• → English: bac

Clipping of baccalauréat.

bac m (plural bacs)

1. (informal) high school exit exam in France; A level, matura

• bachelier

• “bac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• abc

From Old Irish bacc (“angle, bend, corner”), from Proto-Celtic *bakkos (“hook”).

The verb is from Old Irish baccaid (“hinders, prevents, impairs; lames”), from the noun.

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /bˠɑk/
• (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠak/

bac m (genitive singular baic, nominative plural baic)

1. barrier, block, balk, hindrance
2. bottleneck, trap
3. blocking, obstruction
4. constraint, handicap, impediment, encumbrance
5. stop
6. mattock
7. bend (in river, etc.)
8. (door-)step
9. (law) stay (of proceedings)

• →⇒ Fingallian: bocky

bac (present analytic bacann, future analytic bacfaidh, verbal noun bacadh, past participle bactha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. obstruct, balk, hinder
2. impede, block, clog
3. pre-empt
4. bind
5. foul
6. (intransitive) to interfere, to meddle [with le ‘with’]
7. heed

• Alternative verbal noun: bacáil (Ulster)

• → Fingallian: bock

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bac”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

bac

1. Alternative form of bak (“back”)

Borrowed from French bac.

bac n (plural bacuri)

1. ferry

Clipping of bacalaureat

bac n (plural bacuri)

1. baccalaureat

From Old Irish baccaid (“hinders, prevents, impairs; lames”), from bacc (“angle, bend, corner”), from Proto-Celtic *bakkos (“hook”).

bac m (genitive singular baca or baic, plural bacan)

1. delay, obstacle, hindrance
2. peat bank
3. sandbank

bac (past bhac, future bacaidh, verbal noun bacadh, past participle bacte)

1. prevent, hinder, obstruct, restrain

• bac an tùs

• IPA^(key): /bak/

bac

1. Soft mutation of pac.