forca

See also: força, forçà, and fôrça

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan forca), from Latin furca (compare French fourche, Spanish horca).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾ.kə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾ.ka/

Noun

forca f (plural forques)

1. fork, pitchfork (for gardening)
2. gallows

Derived terms

• a la quinta forca
• forcadura
• forcall
• forcar
• forcó
• forqueta
• forquilla

Further reading

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

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Galician

A Galician vineyard.

Alternative forms

• furca

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾka̝/

Noun

forca f (plural forcas)

1. 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

2. gallows pole
3. pitchfork

   Synonym: forcada

4. defile, ravine

Related terms

• Confurco
• Forca
• Forca
• forcada
• Forcadas
• Forcadela
• Forcadenla
• forcado
• forqueta
• furco
• Furco

References

• “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.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin furca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.ka/
• Rhymes: -orka
• Hyphenation: fór‧ca

Noun

forca f (plural forche)

1. fork (instrument used in agriculture and gardening)
2. pitchfork
3. gallows, hanging tree

Derived terms

• biforcare (see there for further derivations)
• forcata
• forchetta (see there for further derivations)
• forchetto
• forcina
• forcino
• forcola
• forcone
• inforcare
• pendaglio da forca
• scampaforca

 

Related terms

• forcella

Anagrams

• cafro

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *furkō, from Latin furca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.kɑ/, [ˈforˠ.kɑ]

Noun

forca m

1. fork

Declension

Declension of forca (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	forca	forcan
accusative	forcan	forcan
genitive	forcan	forcena
dative	forcan	forcum

Related terms

• forcel

Descendants

• Middle English: forke
  • English: fork

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forca”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Portuguese

forca

Etymology

From Old Portuguese forca, from Latin furca.

Noun

forca f (plural forcas)

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrˠxkə/

Noun

forca f (genitive singular fuirce, plural forcan)

1. fork

   Synonyms: greimire, forc

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
forca	fhorca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian forza, from Late Latin fortia, ultimately from Latin fortis.

Noun

fȏrca f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рца)

1. (regional) force
2. (regional) strength

Synonyms

• snága