furca

See also: furcă and furcã

Irish

Noun

furca m (genitive singular furca, nominative plural furcaí)

  1. wrinkle, pucker, fold

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
furca fhurca bhfurca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

First recorded in Late Latin; uncertain origin. In its primary sense of "fork", Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfur.ka/, [ˈfʊr.ka]

Noun

furca f (genitive furcae); first declension

  1. A two-pronged fork, pitchfork.
  2. A fork-shaped prop, pole or stake.
  3. An instrument of punishment, a frame in the form of a fork, which was placed on a culprit's neck, while his hands were fastened to the two ends; yoke.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative furca furcae
genitive furcae furcārum
dative furcae furcīs
accusative furcam furcās
ablative furcā furcīs
vocative furca furcae

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

  • furca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • furca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • furca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • furca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • furca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • furca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.