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arca

See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Balinese edit

Romanization edit

arca

  1. Romanization of ᬅᬃᬘᬵ.

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin arca.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

arca f (plural arques)

  1. chest, coffer
  2. ark (boat)

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

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Further reading edit

Galician edit

 
Pedra da Arca dolmen, Vimianzo, Galicia

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. (nautical, dated) starboard
    Synonym: estribor
    Synonyms: couso, babor

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, arqua, from Latin arca.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark; chest; coffer
    Synonym: hucha
  2. box; casket
    Synonym: couselo
  3. (historical, architecture) brattice (of a castle)
  4. dolmen, megalith
    Synonyms: anta, forno
  5. thoracic cavity
    Synonym: cavidade torácica
Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “arca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “arca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “arca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “arca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “arca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

arc (“face”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

arca

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of arc
    Felderült az arca. ― His/her face brightened.

Declension edit

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 —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		arcáé —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		arcáéi —

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Indonesian edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Malay arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

arca

  1. idol, a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

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Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin arca.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈar.ka/
  • Rhymes: -arka
  • Hyphenation: àr‧ca

Noun edit

arca f (plural arche)

  1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms edit

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Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

  1. chest, box, coffer, safe (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

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative arca arcae
Genitive arcae arcārum
Dative arcae arcīs
Accusative arcam arcās
Ablative arcā arcīs
Vocative arca arcae

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Descendants edit

  • Catalan: arca
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: arca, archa
  • Old Spanish: arca, archa
  • → Albanian: arkë
  • → Czech: archa
  • → Proto-Germanic: *arkō (see there for further descendants)
  • → Italian: arca
  • → Latvian: arka
  • → Lithuanian: arka
  • → Macedonian: арка (arka)
  • → Maltese: arka
  • → Norman: arche
  • → Old English: ærc
  • → Old French: arche
  • → Old Irish: árc, áirc
  • → Old Polish: archa (learned) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Romanian: arca
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: арка
    Latin script: arka
  • → Slovak: archa
  • → Welsh: arch
  • → Cornish: argh
  • → Breton: arc'h

References edit

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Malay edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

arca (Jawi spelling ارچا, plural arca-arca, informal 1st possessive arcaku, 2nd possessive arcamu, 3rd possessive arcanya)

  1. sculpture, idol
  2. a shadow that can be seen in the mirror, through a camera lens or when dreaming
  3. (computing) icon

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Old Javanese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

arca

  1. image, cult-statue

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • "arca" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Portuguese edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Rhymes: -aɾkɐ
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, borrowed from Latin arca. First attested in 1109.[1]

Noun edit

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark
    • 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?
      ... a certain type of «divisions» that would allow him to arrange his papers «in due order», in order to replace his «big box» (the famous and mythical ark?) ...) ...
  2. (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)
  3. (malacology) ark clam (mollusc in the genus Arca)
  4. (dated) coffer (strong chest used for keeping valuables safe)
  5. (by extension, dated) coffer (a supply of money belonging to an organization)
  6. (dated) thorax
  7. (Brazil, colloquial) pawnshop
    Synonym: casa de penhores
  8. (Trás-os-Montes) hug
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

arca

  1. inflection of arcar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References edit

  1. ^ José Pedro Machado (1995) “Arca”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 296

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɾka/ [ˈaɾ.ka]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾka
  • Syllabification: ar‧ca

Noun edit

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark, chest
    Synonym: cofre

Usage notes edit

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el arca, un arca
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

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