-ca
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ca"
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ca
- (diminutive suffix) Added to a noun or a proper noun to form a diminutive.
Usage notes
- (diminutive suffix) Harmonic variants:
- -ca is added to back vowel words
- -ce is added to front vowel words
Derived terms
See also
Latin
Etymology 1
Declined forms of -cus (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
- -ca: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ka/, [kä]
- -ca: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka/, [kä]
- -cā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kaː/, [käː]
- -cā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka/, [kä]
Suffix
- nominative feminine singular of -cus
- nominative neuter plural of -cus
- accusative neuter plural of -cus
- vocative feminine singular of -cus
- vocative neuter plural of -cus
Suffix
Etymology 2
Declined forms of -cum (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ka/, [kä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka/, [kä]
Suffix
- nominative plural of -cum
- accusative plural of -cum
- vocative plural of -cum
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *-ukô, equivalent to -oc + -a.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-ca
- Creates concrete masculine nouns from adjectives or verbs, usually typifying a condition or state, or characterising a diminutive aspect.
Declension
Declension of -ca (weak)
Derived terms
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Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *-ьca
Suffix
-ca m pers
- Forms agent nouns
Declension
Declension of -ca
Derived terms
See also
-czyni f
Serbo-Croatian
Suffix
-ca (Cyrillic spelling -ца)
- Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a diminutive form expressing endearment.
Turkish
Suffix
-ca
- like, -like, -ly; -ish; as if, as though; in the way of
- Used to form adverbs from nouns and adjectives.
- -ish: Used to form languages from a demonym/nationality.
- İspanyol (“Spaniard, Spanish”) + -ca → İspanyolca (“Spanish language”) (literally "like a Spaniard")
- -ian, -ese: Used to form languages the name of a country or region.
Usage notes
- It is used when the nationality word's last vowel is one of "a", "ı", "o" or "u" and the last consonant is one of "b", "c", "d", "g", "ğ", "j", "l", "m", "n", "r", "v", "y" or "z"
- It can become -ce, -ça, -çe according to the last vowel and the last consonant of the word.
Derived terms
Category Turkish terms suffixed with -ca not found
Categories:
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian suffixes
- Hungarian diminutive suffixes
- Latin 1-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms suffixed with -oc
- Old English terms suffixed with -a
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English suffixes
- Old English masculine n-stem nouns
- Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Polish lemmas
- Polish suffixes
- Polish masculine suffixes
- Polish personal suffixes
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian suffixes
- Serbo-Croatian diminutive suffixes
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish suffixes