arca

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See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Noun[edit]

arca f (plural arques)

  1. chest, coffer
  2. ark (boat)

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

arc +‎ -a (“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

arca

  1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of arc
    Nagyon szép arca van. ― She has a beautiful face.

Declension[edit]

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 —

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin arca.

Noun[edit]

arca f (plural arche)

  1. ark (casket or tomb)

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From arceō.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

  1. chest, box, coffer (safe place for storing items)
  2. coffin (box for the dead)

Inflection[edit]

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative arca arcae
genitive arcae arcārum
dative arcae arcīs
accusative arcam arcās
ablative arcā arcīs
vocative arca arcae

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References[edit]

  • arca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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, 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

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Portuguese arca, archa, from Latin arca.

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark, chest

Usage notes[edit]

  • The feminine noun arca is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:
el arca
  • However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

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