poc

See also: POC, PoC, poç, and póc

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin paucus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”).

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔk/
Rhymes: -ɔk

Determiner

poc (feminine poca, masculine plural pocs, feminine plural poques)

little, not much
few, not many
a few, not a lot of

Synonyms

una mica de

Adverb

poc

little, not much
rarely, not often

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish boc, pocc, poc, from Old English bucca.

Noun

poc m (genitive singular poic, nominative plural poic)

buck (male deer, goat, etc.)
butt (as from goat)
(hurling) puck, stroke of stick, stroke of play
puck (of cattle)

Declension

Declension of poc

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	poc	poic
Vocative	a phoic	a phoca
Genitive	poic	poc
Dative	poc	poic

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an poc	na poic
Genitive	an phoic	na bpoc
Dative	leis an bpoc don phoc	leis na poic

Derived terms

Derived terms

poc aosán (“sudden, mysterious bout of illness”)
poc mearaidh (“touch of insanity”)
poc tinnis (“bout of illness”)
(buck):
- poc gabhair, pocán (“billy goat”)
- poc fionn (“male fallow deer”)

(hurling):
- poc báire (“stroke”)
- poc cúil (“puckout”)
- poc sleasa (“sideline cut, side puck”)
- poc saor (“free, free puck”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
poc	phoc	bpoc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"poc" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“2 boc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“poc(c)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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