phoca
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editphoca (plural phocas or phocae)
- (obsolete) A seal. [16th–19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- His charet swift in haste he thither steard,
Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound
Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.
- 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 68:
- With tangled fins, behind, huge Phocæ glide,
And Whales and Grampi swell the distant tide.
Anagrams
editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpʰoː.ka/, [ˈpʰoːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ka/, [ˈfɔːkä]
Noun
editphōca f (genitive phōcae); first declension
- seal (marine animal)
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | phōca | phōcae |
Genitive | phōcae | phōcārum |
Dative | phōcae | phōcīs |
Accusative | phōcam | phōcās |
Ablative | phōcā | phōcīs |
Vocative | phōca | phōcae |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- phoca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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