foca
Catalan
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfoca f (plural foques)
- (mammals) seal
- Synonyms: llop marí, llop de mar, vell marí, serena
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “foca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom foco (“hollow”).
Noun
editfoca f (plural focas)
- hole, piercing
- c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
- Mordesme en Papeliños,
que leeron moitas Xentes:
mordes me, chantasme os dentes
chantame agora os focinos:
si lendo estes meus termiños
fixères xestos, ou mocas,
ê contra min te desuocas,
ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
e focas no Corpo abrirme,
Chantame as mocas nas focas.- You bite me in little papers
that many people have read
You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
Thrust now your snout
If reading these my terms
You do gestures or grimaces
and against me you run off at the mouth
and with clubs you want to injure me
and holes in my body open
Thrust the clubs into my holes
- You bite me in little papers
- c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
Etymology 2
editLearned borrowing from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Noun
editfoca f (plural focas)
- (mammals) seal
References
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “foca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “foca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “foca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē). Compare French phoque.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfoca f (plural foche)
- (mammals) seal
- Synonym: vecchio marino
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- foca on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
- Hyphenation: fo‧ca
Etymology 1
editFrom Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Noun
editfoca f (plural focas)
- (mammals) seal
foca m or f by sense (plural focas)
- (Brazil, journalism) a journalist at the start of his/her career
- 1989, Paulo Rangel, O Assassinato do Conto Policial, FTD, →ISBN, page 10:
- — Por falar nisso, sabe o que é um foca?
— Sei — disse Cotoxó.
— Que é? Diga!
— Foca é um repórter em início de carreira, que ganha mal, se veste mal, come mal, escreve mal, só diz bobagens, não tem cultura, é tido como idiota e um dia se torna chefe da redação.- “By the way, do you know what a seal is?”
“Yes”, said Cotoxó.
“What is it? Tell me!”
“A seal is a reporter at the beginning of his career, who earns badly, dresses badly, eats badly, writes badly, says nothing but nonsense, has no culture, is considered an idiot and one day becomes head of the newsroom.”
- “By the way, do you know what a seal is?”
- an avaricious individual
See also
editEtymology 2
editVerb
editfoca
- inflection of focar:
Further reading
edit- foca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Romanian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editfoca f
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfoca f (plural focas)
- seal (mammal)
- Synonyms: lobo marino, lobo del mar
- (colloquial) whale (large, especially fat, person)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca
Further reading
edit- “foca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
editEtymology
editNoun
editfoca (plural focas)
- seal (animal)
- 1964, Yulcöme [Animals][1], México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en cooperación con la Dirección General de Asuntos Indígenas de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, page 71:
- Ini foca nemi ipa Asia, Miexijco hua ipa Estado Unidos.
- The seal lives in Asia, Mexico and in the United States.
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