phoca

See also: Phoca and phóca

English

Etymology

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊkə/

Noun

phoca (plural phocas or phocae)

1. (obsolete) A seal. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His charet swift in haste he thither steard,
     Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound
     Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.

   • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 68:

     With tangled fins, behind, huge Phocæ glide,
     And Whales and Grampi swell the distant tide.

Anagrams

• copha, phaco, phaco-, poach

Latin

Alternative forms

• phōcē

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoː.ka/, [ˈpʰoːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ka/, [ˈfɔːkä]

Noun

phōca f (genitive phōcae); first declension

1. seal (marine animal)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phōca	phōcae
Genitive	phōcae	phōcārum
Dative	phōcae	phōcīs
Accusative	phōcam	phōcās
Ablative	phōcā	phōcīs
Vocative	phōca	phōcae

Descendants

• Arabic: فُقْمَة (fuqma)
• English: phoca
• → French: phoque
  • → Polish: foka
  • → Romanian: focă
  • → Turkish: fok
• Italian: foca
• Hungarian: fóka
• Portuguese: foca
• Romanian: focă
• Spanish: foca
  • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca
  • → Tagalog: poka
• Translingual: Phoca

References

• “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phoca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.