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orc roc ocr cor rco cro

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Definitions and meaning of orc

orc

Alternative forms

• ork

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔɹk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

From Middle French orque, Italian orca, and their source, Latin orca (“type of whale”). Doublet of orca.

Noun

orc (plural orcs)

1. (archaic) Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc, which he took to mean "demon". Both are from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”). Doublet of ogre.

Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian орк (ork, “evil monstrous humanoid creature; orc”) or Russian орк (ork), both from the English word and possibly under the influence of Russian у́рка (úrka, “prison slang for 'criminal'”). Popularized in English in 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Noun

orc (plural orcs)

1. (fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green. [from 17th c.]

   Hypernym: greenskin

   • 1834, "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:

     The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
3. (slang, derogatory) A Russian soldier or gangster. Sometimes considered an ethnic slur for Russians.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:orc.

Derived terms

Descendants

Some listed may be semantic loans.

Translations

See also

• ogre
• goblin
• troll

Anagrams

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, R. O. C., R.O.C., ROC, RoC, cor, cor-, roc

Catalan

Noun

orc m (plural orcs)

1. an orc

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ork/, [orˠk]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *ork.

Noun

orc m (nominative plural orcas)

1. cup, tankard

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”).

Noun

orc m

1. hell
2. a demon

Usage notes

• The sense "demon" is uncertain. Two ambiguous occurrences of orc, one in the plural compound word orcneas in Beowulf (singular orcné, where *né means "corpse", as in dryhtné) and the other in a glossary which glosses Latin Orcus as "orc. þyrs ꝉ hel deofol", have been interpreted to mean "demon" (including by the OED), and Tolkien held this interpretation when he revived the word with a similar sense in modern English, matching some of the Romance descendants of Orcus. However, it has been argued that this is a misunderstanding and that both instances are of the other sense, "hell".

Declension

Derived terms

• orcen
• orcþyrs

References

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸorkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos. Cognate with Latin porcus and English farrow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ork/

Noun

orc m

1. piglet

   Synonym: banb

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: arc
• Manx: ark

Mutation

References

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “orc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English orc.

Pronunciation

Noun

orc m (plural orcs)

1. (fantasy) orc (evil, monstrous humanoid creature)