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arca

See also: ARCA and -arca

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EtymologyEdit

NounEdit

arca f (plural arques)

  1. chest, coffer
  2. ark (boat)

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Further readingEdit

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

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin arca.

NounEdit

arca f (plural arche)

  1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived termsEdit

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From arceō.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

  1. chest, box, coffer (safe place for storing items)
  2. coffin (box for the dead)

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

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

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
  • du Cange, Charles (1883), “arca”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
  • “arca” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
  • 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

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

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 9788489666276)
      ... 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

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

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