arca

See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Balinese

Romanization

arca

1. Romanization of ᬅᬃᬘᬵ.

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈar.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaɾ.ka]

Noun

arca f (plural arques)

1. chest, coffer
2. ark (boat)

Derived terms

• Arca de l'Aliança
• arca de Noè
• arquejar
• arquibanc

 

Related terms

• arcà
• arquilla
• arquimesa

 

See also

• bagul, cofre

Further reading

• “arca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Pedra da Arca dolmen, Vimianzo, Galicia

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka̝/

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. (nautical, dated) starboard

   Synonym: estribor

   Synonyms: couso, babor

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka̝/

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

• Arca
• Arca Cavada
• Arcapedriña
• arcada
• Arcas
• arqueta
• Pena de Arca
• Viladarcas

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “arca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “arca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “arca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	arca	—
accusative	arcát	—
dative	arcának	—
instrumental	arcával	—
causal-final	arcáért	—
translative	arcává	—
terminative	arcáig	—
essive-formal	arcaként	—
essive-modal	arcául	—
inessive	arcában	—
superessive	arcán	—
adessive	arcánál	—
illative	arcába	—
sublative	arcára	—
allative	arcához	—
elative	arcából	—
delative	arcáról	—
ablative	arcától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	arcáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	arcáéi	—

Derived terms

• arca verítékével

Indonesian

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.

Further reading

• “arca” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• arac, cara

Latin

Alternative forms

• archa (Medieval Latin, common)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/, [ˈärkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/, [ˈärkä]

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. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Noah's Ark
4. (Judaism) Ark of the Covenant

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	arca	arcae
genitive	arcae	arcārum
dative	arcae	arcīs
accusative	arcam	arcās
ablative	arcā	arcīs
vocative	arca	arcae

Derived terms

• arcārius
• arcella
• arcula

Related terms

• arcānō
• arcānus
• arceō

Descendants

• Catalan: arca
• Italian: arca
• Old Galician-Portuguese: arca, archa
  • Galician: arca
  • Portuguese: arca
• Old Spanish: arca, archa
  • Spanish: arca
• → Albanian: arkë
• → Czech: archa
• → Proto-Germanic: *arkō (see there for further descendants)
• → Latvian: arka
• → Lithuanian: arka
• → Macedonian: арка (arka)
• → Maltese: arka
• → Norman: arche
• → Old English: ærc
  • English: ark
• → Old French: arche
  • French: arche
  • → Middle English: arch, arche
    • English: arch
• → 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
• → Welsh: arch
• → Cornish: argh
• → Breton: arc'h

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^[1], 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

Malay

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ˈart͡ʃə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈart͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃə, -ə

Noun

arca (Jawi spelling ارچا, plural arca-arca, informal 1st possessive arcaku, 2nd possessive arcamu, 3rd possessive arcanya)

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.

Further reading

• “arca” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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: ᬅᬃᬘᬵ (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.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• archa (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaʁ.kɐ/ [ˈah.kɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaʁ.kɐ/ [ˈah.kɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈaʁ.kɐ/ [ˈaχ.kɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaɻ.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -aɾkɐ
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, borrowed from Latin arca. First attested in 1109.

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark
   • 1996, Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem: poemas esotéricos : edição crítica, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, →ISBN:

     ... certo tipo de «divisões» que lhe permitissem a arrumação dos seus papéis «na devida ordem», de modo a substituir a sua «caixa grande» (a famosa e mítica arca?

     ... a certain type of «divisions» that would allow him to arrange his papers «in due order», in order to replace his «big box» (the famous and mythical ark?) ...) ...

2. (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)
3. (malacology) ark clam (mollusc in the genus Arca)
4. (dated) coffer (strong chest used for keeping valuables safe)
5. (by extension, dated) coffer (a supply of money belonging to an organization)
6. (dated) thorax
7. (Brazil, colloquial) pawnshop

   Synonym: casa de penhores

8. (Trás-os-Montes) hug

Derived terms

• Arca da Aliança
• arca da bomba
• arca de Noé
• arcar
• arquejar

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

arca

1. inflection of arcar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “arca”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “arca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “arca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “arca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish arca, archa, from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“to enclose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾka/ [ˈaɾ.ka]

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• Rhymes: -aɾka
• Syllabification: ar‧ca

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark, chest

   Synonym: cofre

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like arca take the singular definite article el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el arca. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al arca, del arca.

These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): un arca or una arca. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) must be used: la mejor arca, una buena arca.

• If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used: el arca única, un(a) arca buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las, unas etc.) are always used.

Derived terms

• arca de agua
• arca de la Alianza (“Ark of the Covenant”)
• arca de Noé (“Noah's ark”)
• arca del cuerpo
• arca del diluvio
• arca del pan
• arca del testamento
• arcón
• arqueta
• arquilla
• en arca abierta el justo peca

 

Further reading

• “arca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Anagrams

• cara