forca
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan forca), from Latin furca (compare French fourche, Spanish horca).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
forca f (plural forques)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “forca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
GalicianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese forca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin furca (“pitchfork”). Cognate with Portuguese forca and Spanish horca).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
forca f (plural forcas)
- pole
- 1339. M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 127:
- que a deuedes dar chantada de vina et ben fercada et [. . ] con forcas et linoos ao pelongo et latas ao traues
- you should plant vines and have it correctly kept [...] with gallows and strings all along, and beams crosswise
- que a deuedes dar chantada de vina et ben fercada et [. . ] con forcas et linoos ao pelongo et latas ao traues
- 1339. M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 127:
- gallows pole
- pitchfork
- Synonym: forcada
- defile, ravine
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “forca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “forca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “forca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “forca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “forca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
forca f (plural forche)
- fork (instrument used in agriculture and gardening)
- pitchfork
- gallows, hanging tree
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AnagramsEdit
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *furkō, from Latin furca.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
forca m
DeclensionEdit
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- forca in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese forca, from Latin furca.
NounEdit
forca f (plural forcas)
- gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)
Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork”). Doublet of forc.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
forca f (genitive singular fuirce, plural forcan)
MutationEdit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
forca | fhorca |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian forza, from Late Latin fortia, ultimately from Latin fortis.
NounEdit
fȏrca f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рца)
- (regional) force
- (regional) strength