arca

See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Contents

Catalan

Etymology

Pronunciation

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

Noun

arca f (plural arques)

1. chest, coffer
2. ark (boat)

See also

• bagul, cofre

Further reading

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

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Galician

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka̝/

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. (nautical) starboard

   Synonym: estribor

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese arca, archa, from Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark; chest; coffer

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Hungarian

Etymology

arc +‎ -a (“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

arca

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

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

Declension

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 terms

• arca verítékével

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural arche)

1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms

• arca di Noè - Noah's ark
• arcaro

Anagrams

• arac
• cara

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Latin

Etymology

From arceō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/

Noun

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

Inflection

First declension.

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

Derived terms

• arcārius
• arcella
• arcula

Related terms

• arcānō
• arcānus
• arceō

Descendants

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: arca
• Old Portuguese: arca, archa
  • Galician: arca
  • Portuguese: arca
• Old Spanish: arca, archa
  • Spanish: arca
• → Albanian: arkë
• → Czech: archa
• → French: arche
• → Germanic: *arkō
  • Old English: ærc
    • English: ark
      • → Maori: āka
    • Scots: airk
  • Old Dutch:
    • Middle Dutch: arke
      • Dutch: ark
  • Old High German: archa, arka
    • Middle High German: arche
    • German: Arche
  • Norse: [script needed] (*arku)
    • Old Norse: ǫrk
      • Faroese: ørk
      • Norwegian: ark
      • Old Swedish: ark
        • Swedish: ark
          • → Finnish: arkki
    • → Finnish: arkku
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰 (arka)
• → Italian: arca
• → Latvian: arka
• → Lithuanian: arka
• → Macedonian: арка (arka)
• → Maltese: arka
• → Norman: arche
• → Old Irish: árc, áirc
  • Irish: áirc
  • Scottish Gaelic: àirc
• → Polish: arka
• → Romanian: arca
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арка

  Latin: arka

• → Slovak: archa
• → Welsh: arch

References

• 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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Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese arca, archa, from Latin arca.

Noun

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 2

Verb

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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Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark, chest

Usage notes

• 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 terms

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

Further reading

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