foca
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Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
foca f (plural foques)
- (mammals) seal
- Synonyms: llop marí, llop de mar, vell marí, serena
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “foca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From foco (“hollow”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
foca f (plural focas)
- (regional, dated) hole, piercing
- c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
- Mordesme en Papeliños,
- que leeron moitas Xentes:
- mordes me, chantasme os dentes
- chantame agora os focinos:
- si lendo estes meus termiños
- fixères xestos, ou mocas,
- ê contra min te desuocas,
- ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
- e focas no Corpo abrirme,
- Chantame as mocas nas focas.
- You bite me in little papers
- that many people have read
- You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
- Thrust now your snout
- If reading these my terms
- You do gestures or grimaces
- and against me you run off at the mouth
- and with clubs you want to injure me
- and holes in my body open
- Thrust the clubs into my holes
- c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
Etymology 2[edit]
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
foca f (plural focas)
- (mammals) seal
References[edit]
- “foca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “foca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē). Compare French phoque.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
foca f (plural foche)
- (mammals) seal
- Synonym: vecchio marino
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
foca on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: fo‧ca
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Noun[edit]
foca f (plural focas)
- (mammals) seal
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
foca
- inflection of focar:
Further reading[edit]
foca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
foca f
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
foca f (plural focas)
- seal (mammal)
- Synonyms: lobo marino, lobo del mar
- (colloquial) whale (large, especially fat, person)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca
Further reading[edit]
- “foca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tetelcingo Nahuatl[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
foca (plural focas)
- seal (animal)
- 1964, Yulcöme [Animals][1], México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en cooperación con la Dirección General de Asuntos Indígenas de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, page 71:
- Ini foca nemi ipa Asia, Miexijco hua ipa Estado Unidos.
- The seal lives in Asia, Mexico and in the United States.
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