arca

See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Contents

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.kə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈar.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.ka/

NounEdit

arca f (plural arques)

1. chest, coffer
2. ark (boat)

See alsoEdit

• bagul, cofre

Further readingEdit

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

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GalicianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka̝/

NounEdit

arca f (plural arcas)

1. (nautical) starboard

   Synonym: estribor

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Portuguese arca, archa, from Latin arca.

NounEdit

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark; chest; coffer

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HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

arc +‎ -a (“possessive suffix”)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒrt͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

NounEdit

arca

1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of arc

   Nagyon szép arca van. ― She has a beautiful face.

DeclensionEdit

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	arca	—
accusative	arcát	—
dative	arcának	—
instrumental	arcával	—
causal-final	arcáért	—
translative	arcává	—
terminative	arcáig	—
essive-formal	arcaként	—
essive-modal	arcául	—
inessive	arcában	—
superessive	arcán	—
adessive	arcánál	—
illative	arcába	—
sublative	arcára	—
allative	arcához	—
elative	arcából	—
delative	arcáról	—
ablative	arcától	—

Derived termsEdit

• arca verítékével

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin arca.

NounEdit

arca f (plural arche)

1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived termsEdit

• arca di Noè - Noah's ark
• arcaro

AnagramsEdit

• arac
• cara

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From arceō.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/

NounEdit

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

1. chest, box, coffer (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape)
2. coffin (box for the dead)
3. ark (kind of ship)
   1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Noah's Ark
4. (Judaism) Ark of the Covenant

InflectionEdit

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	arca	arcae
genitive	arcae	arcārum
dative	arcae	arcīs
accusative	arcam	arcās
ablative	arcā	arcīs
vocative	arca	arcae

Derived termsEdit

• arcārius
• arcella
• arcula

Related termsEdit

• arcānō
• arcānus
• arceō

DescendantsEdit

• Albanian: arkë
• Catalan: arca
• English: ark
• Finnish: arkku
• French: arche
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰 (arka)

• Irish: áirc
• Italian: arca
• Norwegian: ark
• Old Norse: ǫrk
• Portuguese: arca
• Spanish: arca

ReferencesEdit

• arca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• arca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
    
• arca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arca in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• arca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.kɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaʁ.kɐ/
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Portuguese arca, archa, from Latin arca.

NounEdit

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark; chest; coffer
   • 1996, Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem: poemas esotéricos : edição crítica, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica →ISBN

     ... certo tipo de «divisões» que lhe permitissem a arrumação dos seus papéis «na devida ordem», de modo a substituir a sua «caixa grande» (a famosa e mítica arca?) ...

2. (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

arca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of arcar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of arcar

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Spanish arca, archa, from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“I enclose”).

NounEdit

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark, chest

Usage notesEdit

• The feminine noun arca is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el arca

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Derived termsEdit

• arca de Noé - Noah's ark
• arca de la Alianza - Ark of the Covenant

Further readingEdit

• “arca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.