arca

See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Balinese

Romanization

arca

1. Romanization of ᬅᬃᬘᬵ.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin arca.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.kə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈar.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.ka/

Noun

arca f (plural arques)

1. chest, coffer
2. ark (boat)

Related terms

• arquilla

See also

• bagul, cofre

Further reading

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

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Galician

Pedra da Arca dolmen, Vimianzo, Galicia

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka̝/

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. (nautical) starboard

   Synonym: estribor

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese arca, archa, arqua, from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka̝/

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark; chest; coffer

   Synonym: hucha

2. box; casket

   Synonym: couselo

3. (historical, architecture) brattice (of a castle)
4. dolmen, megalith

   Synonyms: anta, forno

5. thorax

   Synonym: torso

Derived terms

• Arca
• Arca Cavada
• Arcapedriña
• arcada
• Arcas
• arqueta
• Pena de Arca
• Viladarcas

References

• “arca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2012.
• “arca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “arca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “arca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Hungarian

Etymology

arc (“face”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒrt͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of arc

   Felderült az arca. ― His/her face brightened.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	arca	—
accusative	arcát	—
dative	arcának	—
instrumental	arcával	—
causal-final	arcáért	—
translative	arcává	—
terminative	arcáig	—
essive-formal	arcaként	—
essive-modal	arcául	—
inessive	arcában	—
superessive	arcán	—
adessive	arcánál	—
illative	arcába	—
sublative	arcára	—
allative	arcához	—
elative	arcából	—
delative	arcáról	—
ablative	arcától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	arcáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	arcáéi	—

Derived terms

• arca verítékével

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈart͡ʃa]
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

1. idol, a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

Further reading

• “arca” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/
• Rhymes: -arka
• Hyphenation: àr‧ca

Noun

arca f (plural arche)

1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms

• arca di Noè (“Noah's ark”)
• arcaro

Anagrams

• arac, cara

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Latin

Etymology

From arceō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/, [ˈärkä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/, [ˈärkä]

Noun

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

1. chest, box, coffer, safe (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape)
2. coffin (box for the dead)
3. ark (kind of ship)
   1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Noah's Ark
4. (Judaism) Ark of the Covenant

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arca	arcae
Genitive	arcae	arcārum
Dative	arcae	arcīs
Accusative	arcam	arcās
Ablative	arcā	arcīs
Vocative	arca	arcae

Derived terms

• arcārius
• arcella
• arcula

Related terms

• arcānō
• arcānus
• arceō

Descendants

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: arca
• Old Portuguese: arca, archa
  • Galician: arca
  • Portuguese: arca
• Old Spanish: arca, archa
  • Spanish: arca
• → Albanian: arkë
• → Czech: archa
• → Proto-Germanic: *arkō
  • Old English: ærc
    • English: ark
      • → Maori: āka
    • Scots: airk
  • Old Dutch:
    • Middle Dutch: arke
      • Dutch: ark
  • Old High German: archa, arka
    • Middle High German: arche
    • German: Arche
  • Proto-Norse: *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ (*arku)
    • Old Norse: ǫrk
      • Faroese: ørk
      • Norwegian Bokmål: ark
      • Old Swedish: ark
        • Swedish: ark
          • → Finnish: arkki
    • → Finnish: arkku
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰 (arka)
• → Italian: arca
• → Latvian: arka
• → Lithuanian: arka
• → Macedonian: арка (arka)
• → Maltese: arka
• → Norman: arche
• → Old French: arche
  • French: arche
  • → Middle English: arch, arche
    • English: arch
• → Old Irish: árc, áirc
  • Irish: áirc
  • Scottish Gaelic: àirc
• → Polish: arka
• → Romanian: arca
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арка

  Latin: arka

• → Slovak: archa
• → Welsh: arch
• → Cornish: argh
• → Breton: arc'h

References

• “arca”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• arca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
    
• “arca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “arca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “arca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.kɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaʁ.kɐ/
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese arca, archa, from Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark; chest; coffer
   • 1996, Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem: poemas esotéricos : edição crítica, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica →ISBN

     ... certo tipo de «divisões» que lhe permitissem a arrumação dos seus papéis «na devida ordem», de modo a substituir a sua «caixa grande» (a famosa e mítica arca?) ...

2. (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

arca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of arcar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of arcar

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish arca, archa, from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“to enclose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾka/, [ˈaɾ.ka]

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark, chest

   Synonym: cofre

Usage notes

• The feminine noun arca is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed /a/ sound in that it takes the articles el and un (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el arca

un arca

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with stressed /a/ such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la or una.

Derived terms

• arca de la Alianza (“Ark of the Covenant”)
• arca de Noé (“Noah's ark”)
• arcón
• arqueta
• arquilla

 

Further reading

• “arca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• cara