arca

See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Catalan

Noun

arca f (plural arques)

  1. chest, coffer
  2. ark (boat)

See also

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

arc +‎ -a (“possessive suffix”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

arca

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

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 —

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural arche)

  1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms

  • arca di Noè - Noah's ark
  • arcaro

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From arceō.

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

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

Derived 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, 1883–1887)
  • arca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

  • (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

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark, chest

Usage notes

  • 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.

Derived terms

Further reading

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