porca

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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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
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Adjective

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porca

  1. feminine singular of porco

Etymology 2

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

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Noun

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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

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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porca f (plural porche)

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

Etymology 2

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From Latin porca (sow).

Noun

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porca f (plural porche)

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

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porca f sg

  1. feminine singular of porco
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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Feminine of porcus.

Noun

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porca f (genitive porcae); first declension

  1. sow (female pig)
Declension
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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
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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porca f (genitive porcae); first declension

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

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  • 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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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: por‧ca

Noun

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porca f (plural porcas)

  1. sow; female equivalent of porco
  2. nut (that fits on a bolt)
    Synonym: rosca
  3. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) slut (promiscuous woman)

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Spanish

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Noun

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porca f (plural porcas)

  1. female equivalent of porco