arca

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See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Balinese

Romanization

arca

  1. Romanization of ᬅᬃᬘᬵ.

Catalan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (plural arques)

  1. chest, coffer
  2. ark (boat)

See also

Further reading

Galician

Pedra da Arca dolmen, Vimianzo, Galicia

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. (nautical) starboard
    Synonym: estribor

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

References

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

Indonesian

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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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural arche)

  1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

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From arceō.

Pronunciation

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

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • “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 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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural s)

  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

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark, chest
    Synonym: cofre

Usage notes

  • Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
    el arca, un arca
  • They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms

Further reading

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