acca

See also: Acca

English

Etymology 1

Noun

acca (plural accas)

1. (slang) An accumulator bet.

Etymology 2

Noun

acca (plural accas)

1. (Australia, slang) An academic.
   • 1979, Meanjin, volume 38, page 184:

     […] a faintly anglophiliac university atmosphere: the polarities threaten to split the character apart. The tensions would have been particularly interesting if the accas hadn't been so corrupt.

   • 2011, Don Graham, State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents, page 155:

     […] academics (or accas as the Aussies call them) […]

Anagrams

• AACC, CAAC, CCAA, Caca, caca

Hausa

Etymology

Cognate with Mangas asha, Bura acà.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔát͡ʃ.t͡ʃàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔát.t͡ʃàː]

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Noun

accā̀ f (possessed form accàr̃)

1. acha, fonio (Digitaria exilis)

Descendants

• → English: acha

References

• Newman, Paul (2007), A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 2.

Italian

Alternative forms

• hacca

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *acca (“aitch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈak.ka/
• Rhymes: -akka
• Hyphenation: àc‧ca

Noun

acca f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.; aitch

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) lettera; a, bi, ci, di, e, effe, gi, acca, i, gei / i lunga, cappa, elle, emme, enne, o, pi, cu, erre, esse, ti, u, vu / vi, doppia vu, ics, ipsilon / i greca, zeta

Anagrams

• caca

Old Irish

Verb

·acca

1. first/second-person singular preterite/perfect prototonic of ad·cí

Mutation

Mutation of ·acca

radical	lenition	nasalization
·acca (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	·acca	·n-acca

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Scots

Noun

acca (uncountable)

1. alternative form of ackwa

References

• “acca, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.