faca

See also: facă and faça

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaka̝/

Etymology 1

Unknown. Probably not from Latin falx, from which originates fouce (“sickle”).[1]

Noun

faca f (plural facas)

  1. a large pocketknife

Etymology 2

From Old French haque, from Middle English hack, from Hackney, a borough of London famous for its horses. Cognate with Spanish jaca.

Noun

faca f (plural facas)

  1. a mare
    • 1455, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 316:
      Iten, que furtara a faqa a Pero Gayo da sua casa, que está á par da vila de Ribadauia, da casa que está á par da ponte, et que lla furtara con a sella e con o freo et que fora despois por ela preso ena Cruña
      Item, that he stole the mare of Pedro Gaio, from his house that is near the town of Ribadavia, by the bridge; and that he stole her with saddle and bridle, and that later he was captured because of her in A Coruña

References

  • “faca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “faqa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “faca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “faca” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “faca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ↑ Cf. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. faca.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfˠakə/

Verb

faca

  1. past indicative dependent analytic of feic
    Ceapaim go bhfaca sé an madra.
    I think that he saw the dog.

Usage notes

  • Always occurs either lenited or eclipsed depending on the preverbal particle:
    Ní fhaca mé. ― I didn’t see.
    an áit a bhfaca mé an buachaill inti ― the place where I saw the boy
  • Takes the forms of preverbal particles normally associated with the present tense, such as go, an, and nach, rather than gur, ar, and nár:
    An bhfaca tú? ― Did you see?
    Nach bhfaca tú? ― Didn’t you see?

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
faca fhaca bhfaca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Portuguese

facas

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Latin falx (“sickle”).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ka/, /ˈfa.kɐ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfa.kɐ/
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ca
  • Rhymes: -aka

Noun

faca f (plural facas)

  1. knife

Derived terms

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ·accae.

Verb

faca

  1. past dependent of faic

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
facafhaca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian faccia.

Noun

faca f (Cyrillic spelling фаца)

  1. (colloquial) face
  2. (colloquial) person, guy

Spanish

Verb

faca

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