parc

See also: parç and parć

English

Noun

parc (plural parcs)

1. Alternative form of park

Anagrams

• -carp, ACPR, APCR, CARP, CRAP, Carp, RCAP, carp, crap, prac

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpark]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpaɾk]

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• Rhymes: -aɾk

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan parc, from Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus.

Noun

parc m (plural parcs)

1. park

Derived terms

• aparcar
• parc d'atraccions
• parc infantil

Related terms

• pàrquing

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin parcus.

Adjective

parc (feminine parca, masculine plural parcs, feminine plural parques)

1. frugal, sparing, moderate

   Synonym: moderat

Derived terms

• parquedat

References

• “parc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading

• “parc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “parc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “parc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French parc m, from Old French parc m, from Early Medieval Latin parricus m, possibly borrowed from Frankish *parrik m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁk/

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Noun

parc m (plural parcs)

1. park
2. playpen (for children)
3. pen (for animals)
4. (total) number; stock (de (“of”))
5. fleet (of vehicles; of similar equipment)

   le parc de véhicules du Québec

   Quebec's vehicle fleet

   Le renouvellement de le parc nucléaire sera un grand défi.

   Renewal of the nuclear fleet will be a big challenge.

Derived terms

• parc aquatique
• parc aux petits
• parc d'attractions
• parc fermé
• parc national
• parc naturel
• parquet m

Descendants

• → Albanian: park
• → Azerbaijani: park
• → Basque: parke
• → Belarusian: парк (park)
• → Bengali: পার্ক (park)
• → Bulgarian: парк (park)
• → Czech: park
• → Danish: park
• → Estonian: park
• → Galician: parque
• → Hebrew: פַּרק (park)
• → Hindi: पार्क (pārk)
• → Hungarian: park
• → Icelandic: park
• → Kazakh: парк (park)
• → Kyrgyz: парк (park)
• → Latvian: parks
• → Lithuanian: parkas
• → Macedonian: парк (park)
• → Maltese: park
• → Maori: pāka
• → Mongolian: парк (park)
• → Norwegian:

  Bokmål: park

  Nynorsk: park

• → Persian: پارک (pârk)
• → Polish: park
• → Portuguese: parque
• → Romanian: parc
• → Russian: парк (park)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: парк

  Latin script: park

• → Slovak: park
• → Slovene: park
• → Swedish: park
• → Spanish: parque
• → Tajik: парк (park)
• → Tamil: பூங்கா (pūṅkā)
• → Turkish: park
• → Turkmen: park
• → Ukrainian: парк (park)
• → Urdu: پارک (pārk)
• → Uzbek: park
• → Yiddish: פּאַרק (park)

Further reading

• “parc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• parque

Etymology

From Old French parc.

Noun

parc m (plural parcs)

1. enclosure (enclosed area)
   • 1600, Olivier de Serres, Bonafous, Balbis, Tissot, Le Theatre d'Agriculture et Mesnage des champs d'Olivier de Serres Seigneur du Pradel, page 322

     compose-on le parc selon l'usage des lieux

     we make up the enclosure depending on the circumstances of the place

Derived terms

• parquet

Descendants

• French: parc (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Alternative forms

• park, parke

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus (“fence, enclosure”).

Noun

parc oblique singular, m (oblique plural pars, nominative singular pars, nominative plural parc)

1. enclosed area, often fenced off, often in a clearing

Descendants

• Middle French: parc, parque
  • French: parc (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: parc
• → Italian: parco
• → Middle English: park, parc, parck, perke, paric
  • English: park
  • Yola: park

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French parc, from Old French parc, from Early Medieval Latin parricus (“enclosure”), from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, fenced-in area”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

parc n (plural parcuri)

1. park; garden; terrace

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	parc	parcul		parcuri	parcurile
genitive-dative	parc	parcului		parcuri	parcurilor
vocative	parcule			parcurilor

Derived terms

• parc național
• parc sportiv
• parc zoologic

Related terms

• grădină

Welsh

Etymology

From Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /park/
• Rhymes: -ark

Noun

parc m (plural parciau)

1. park

Mutation

Mutated forms of parc

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
parc	barc	mharc	pharc

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