phoca

See also: Phoca and phóca

English

Etymology

From Latin phoca, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Noun

phoca (plural phocas or phocae)

1. (obsolete) A seal.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     His charet swift in haste he thither steard, / Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound / Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.

Anagrams

• copha, phaco, phaco-, poach

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoː.ka/, [ˈpʰoːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ka/, [ˈfɔːkä]

Noun

phōca f (genitive phōcae); first declension

1. seal (marine animal)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phōca	phōcae
Genitive	phōcae	phōcārum
Dative	phōcae	phōcīs
Accusative	phōcam	phōcās
Ablative	phōcā	phōcīs
Vocative	phōca	phōcae

Descendants

• English: phoca
• French: phoque
• Italian: foca
• Polish: foka

• Portuguese: foca
• Romanian: focă
• Spanish: foca
• Translingual: Phoca

References

• “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phoca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.