porca

See also: Porca

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin porca (“sow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɾkɐ]

Noun

porca f (plural porcas)

1. sow
   • 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:

     cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.

     a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight bushels of legume, beans and peas; and two iron bushels of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 tackles of ships that he had in pawn for 600 mor.

2. (figurative) an untidy, unclean woman
3. a swelling
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 75:

     son chamadas llandooas o scrofullas que dizen porcas

     they are named tonsils or scrofulas that they call porcas

Derived terms

• porcalla

Adjective

porca

1. feminine singular of porco

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese porca, probably from Latin porca (“ridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɾkɐ]

Noun

porca f (plural porcas)

1. nut (for a bolt)
2. a children's traditional game, loosely related to golf, whose goal is a hole in the ground
3. earth left undisturbed after digging

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “porca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “porca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porca”, 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), “porca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔrka
• Hyphenation: pòr‧ca

Etymology 1

From Latin porca (“balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”).

Noun

porca f (plural porche)

1. the ridge between two furrows; balk

   Synonym: (Northern Italy) prosa

Etymology 2

From Latin porca (“sow”).

Noun

porca f (plural porche)

1. sow

   Synonyms: scrofa, troia, maiala

2. (figurative, vulgar, derogatory) a lascivious or lewd woman

Related terms

• porco

Adjective

porca

1. feminine singular of porco

Derived terms

• porca puttana

Anagrams

• -carpo, capro, carpo, carpo-, copra, parco, parcò

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Feminine of porcus.

Noun

porca f (genitive porcae); first declension

1. sow (female pig)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	porca	porcae
genitive	porcae	porcārum
dative	porcae	porcīs
accusative	porcam	porcās
ablative	porcā	porcīs
vocative	porca	porcae

Synonyms

• (female pig): scrōfa
• (female or male pig): sūs

Related terms

• (male pig): porcus

Descendants

• Aromanian: poarcã
• Catalan: porca
• Galician: porca
• Italian: porca
• Megleno-Romanian: poarcă
• Mirandese: puorca
• Neapolitan: puorca
• Occitan: pòrca
• Portuguese: porca
• Romanian: poarcă
• Sicilian: porca
• Spanish: puerca

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare English furrow. Doublet of riga.

Noun

porca f (genitive porcae); first declension

1. (agriculture) the ridge between two furrows; a balk; a lynchet

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	porca	porcae
genitive	porcae	porcārum
dative	porcae	porcīs
accusative	porcam	porcās
ablative	porcā	porcīs
vocative	porca	porcae

Descendants

• Galician: porca
• Italian: porca
• Romanian: porcoi
• Old Spanish: puerca
  • Spanish: aporcar
• Portuguese: alporquia

References

• “porca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “porca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• porca 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)
• porca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “porca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese porca, from Latin porca (“sow”), feminine of porcus (“pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *porḱ- (“young swine, young pig”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.kɐ/ [ˈpɔh.kɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.kɐ/ [ˈpɔh.kɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔʁ.kɐ/ [ˈpɔχ.kɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɻ.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾ.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: por‧ca

Noun

porca f (plural porcas)

1. sow; female equivalent of porco
2. nut (that fits on a bolt)

   Synonym: rosca

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) slut (promiscuous woman)

Coordinate terms

• (nut): parafuso

Derived terms

• porca-marinha
• porca-sara

Related terms

• porcaria
• porco

Spanish

Noun

porca f (plural porcas)

1. female equivalent of porco