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arca

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See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Balinese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Javanese arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ar.t͡ʃə/
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca (Balinese script ᬅᬃᬘᬵ or ᬅᬃᬘ)

  1. statue

Further reading

  • “arca” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (plural arques)

  1. chest, coffer
  2. ark (boat)

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɾka/ [ˈaɾ.kɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾka
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. (nautical, dated) starboard
    Synonym: estribor
    Antonyms: couso, babor

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, arqua, from Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark; chest; coffer
    Synonym: hucha
  2. box; casket
    Synonym: couselo
  3. (historical, architecture) brattice (of a castle)
  4. dolmen, megalith
    Synonyms: anta, forno
  5. thoracic cavity
    Synonym: cavidade torácica
Derived terms

References

Hungarian

Etymology

arc (“face”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒrt͡sɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of arc
    Felderült az arca. ― His/her face brightened.

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

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Indonesian

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Etymology

From Malay arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈart͡ʃa]
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

  1. idol (a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin arca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈar.ka/
  • Rhymes: -arka
  • Hyphenation: àr‧ca

Noun

arca f (plural arche)

  1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms

  • arca di Noè (“Noah's ark”)
  • arcaro

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *arkā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-eh₂ or from the Proto-Italic form *arkeō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-.

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

  1. chest, box, coffer, safe (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape)
  2. coffin (box for the dead)
  3. ark (kind of ship)
    1. (biblical) Noah's Ark
  4. (biblical) Ark of the Covenant

Declension

First-declension noun.

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: arca
  • Italian: arca
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: arca, archa
  • Old Spanish: arca, archa
  • → Albanian: arkë
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *arx
  • → Czech: archa
  • → Proto-Germanic: *arkō (see there for further descendants)
  • → Latvian: arka
  • → Lithuanian: arka
  • → Macedonian: арка (arka)
  • → Maltese: arka
  • → Norman: arche
  • → Old English: ærc
  • → Old French: arche
  • → Old Irish: árc, áirc
    • Irish: áirc
    • Scottish Gaelic: àirc
  • → Old Polish: archa (learned) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Romanian: arca
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: арка
    Latin script: arka
  • → Slovak: archa

References

  • “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "arca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “arca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
  • “arca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “arca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “arca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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Malay

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Etymology

From Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

Pronunciation

Noun

arca (Jawi spelling ارچا, plural arca-arca)

  1. (uncommon, dated, archaic) sculpture, idol
    Synonym: (more common) patung
  2. a shadow that can be seen in the mirror, through a camera lens or when dreaming
  3. (computing) icon

Usage notes

For sense 1, "arca" refers to statues built from pre-Islamic times, especially idols and statues of kings.

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Old Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ar.t͡ʃa/
  • Rhymes: -t͡ʃa
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

  1. image, cult-statue

Derived terms

  • ekārca
  • jinārca
  • liṅgārca
  • Wiṣṇuarca

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦉꦕ (reca, “statue”)
  • → Balinese: arca (“statue”)

Further reading

  • "arca" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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Spanish

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