roca
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
roca f (plural roques)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “roca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “roca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “roca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “roca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Perhaps from Gothic *rukka, *𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌺𐌰 (*rukka); or, given its open stressed vowel, rather from a West Germanic cognate of it (compare Old High German rocko),[1] from Proto-Germanic *rukkô. Cognate with Portuguese roca and Spanish rueca.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
roca f (plural rocas)
- spinning distaff (part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun)
- Synonyms: galleta, ruxideira
- En cada terra seu uso, en cada roca seu fuso.(proverb)
- In every country its customs, for every distaff its spindle.
- 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:
- Polo fio d'unha roca
ó estagamo seme bay,
é cortafeira coideiche
que acababa de finar.- By the thread of a distaff
my stomach is going away,
and Wednesday I though
that I had just died.
- By the thread of a distaff
- 1889, Xulio Alonso Sánchez, O Chufón:
- Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.
- The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax on the distaff, for the year's cloth.
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese roca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) borrowed from Old Catalan roca, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of unknown origin. Doublet of rocha.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
roca f (plural rocas)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “roca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “roca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “roca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “roca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “roca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “rueca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Irish edit
Verb edit
roca
- present subjunctive analytic of roc
Italian edit
Adjective edit
roca
Anagrams edit
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
roca
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rukkô, although the intermediate language is uncertain. Possibly Gothic rukka, 𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌺𐌰 (rukka), however, the vowel quality in Iberian Romance (/ɔ/ in Portuguese, /we/ in Spanish) points to a possible West Germanic loanword,[1] or to the influence of Latin rota (“wheel”).[2] Cognate to Galician roca, Spanish rueca, Italian rocca, Old High German rocko (German Rocken).[3]
Noun edit
roca f (plural rocas)
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese roca, from Old Catalan roca, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin. Doublet of rocha.
Noun edit
roca f (plural rocas)
Related terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
roca
- inflection of rocar:
References edit
- ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “roca”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German)
- ^ 1932, Antenor Nascentes, Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa.
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 110
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Catalan roca, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.
Noun edit
roca f (plural rocas)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
roca
Further reading edit
- “roca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014