phoca

See also: Phoca and phóca

English

Etymology

From Latin phoca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Noun

phoca (plural phocas or phocae)

(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, poach

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoː.ka/

Noun

phōca f (genitive phōcae); first declension

seal (marine animal)

Declension

First declension.

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

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