amurca

English

Etymology

From Latin amurca.

Noun

amurca (plural amurcas)

1. The sediment in olive oil.

Translations

sediment in olive oil

• Arabic: مَاء الزَّيْتُون m (māʔ al-zzaytūn), دُرْدِيّ m (durdiyy), دُرْدِيّ الزَّيْت m (durdiyy al-zzayt)

  South Levantine Arabic: جفت m (jift)

• Aramaic:

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: גִּיפְתׇּא m (gīp̄tā)

• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: morca (ca) f
• Finnish: kasvisvesi
• French: margine (fr) f
• German: Öldrüsen f pl, Ölhefe f, Ölsatz m, Gärbe f, Ölschaum m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀμόργη f (amórgē)

  Modern: μούργα (el) f (moúrga)

• Hebrew: גֶּפֶת (he) (gāp̄āṯ)
• Italian: morchia (it) f, acqua di vegetazione f
• Latin: amurca f
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: amurca f
• Russian: аму́рка (ru) f (amúrka)
• Serbo-Croatian: mȗrga (sh) f, mȗlj (sh) m, ȗljnī tálog m, bȋljna vòda f
• Slovene: murga f
• Spanish: amurca (es) f, morga f, alpechín (es) m, jámila f
• Swedish: grönsaksvatten n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• oil cake

Anagrams

• Maruca

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμόργη (amórgē), possibly via Etruscan.

Noun

amurca f (genitive amurcae); first declension

1. The watery part that flows out in pressing olives, the lees or dregs of oil
   • 200s, Quintus Gargilius Martialis De arboribus pomiferis 1. 1 ed. Angelo Mai Operis deperditi de hortis Fragmenta ex codicibus Neapolitano et Romano cum scholiis palaeographicis et adnotationibus Rome 1846 p. 58

     Sunt qui figularem cretam cum amurca subigunt, soleque siccatis cydoneis inliniri existimant, si in loco sicco et frigido reponantur.

     There are those who mix potter clay with amurca and hold it to be daubed on quinces when they are set up in a dry and cold stead.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	amurca	amurcae
genitive	amurcae	amurcārum
dative	amurcae	amurcīs
accusative	amurcam	amurcās
ablative	amurcā	amurcīs
vocative	amurca	amurcae

Derived terms

• amurcārius

Descendants

• Aragonese: morca
• Catalan: morca
• Dalmatian: muarka, muarca
  • → Serbo-Croatian: mȗrga / му̑рга
  • → Slovene: murga
• English: amurca
• Italian: morchia
• → Portuguese: amurca
• Sicilian: mùrija, * muria
• Spanish: morga, murga
• → Spanish: amurca
• → Russian: аму́рка (amúrka)
• Venetan: morga

References

• “amurca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amurca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amurca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin amurca.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈmuʁ.kɐ/ [aˈmuh.kɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈmuʁ.kɐ/ [aˈmuh.kɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aˈmuɾ.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈmuʁ.kɐ/ [aˈmuχ.kɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈmuɻ.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈmuɾ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -uʁkɐ, -uɾkɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧mur‧ca

Noun

amurca f (plural amurcas)

1. amurca (dark water running from the olive granary)

   Synonyms: albufeira, almofeira, reima

Further reading

• “amurca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “amurca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin amurca. Doublet of morga and murga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmuɾka/ [aˈmuɾ.ka]
• Rhymes: -uɾka
• Syllabification: a‧mur‧ca

Noun

amurca f (plural amurcas)

1. amurca

Further reading

• “amurca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10