Posca

See also: posca

Latin

Etymology

From posca (“kind of drink”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɔs.ka]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɔs.ka]

Proper noun

Posca m sg (genitive Poscae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Marcus Pinarius Posca, a Roman praetor

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Posca
genitive	Poscae
dative	Poscae
accusative	Poscam
ablative	Poscā
vocative	Posca

References

• “Posca, M. Pinarius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray