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orca roca ocra cora rcoa croa orac roac oarc aorc raoc aroc ocar coar oacr aocr caor acor rcao crao raco arco caro acro

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Definitions and meaning of orca

orca

Alternative forms

• orc (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orca (“tun, cask; whale”), see there for more. Although the origin is obscure, the sometimes-cited association with orcus (“underworld”) is folk-etymology. Doublet of orc.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈoɹkə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːkə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kə

Noun

orca (plural orcas or orca)

1. A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.

   Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, blackfish

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ork, orc

Anagrams

• AOCR, Arco, Caro, Cora, RAOC, Roca, acro, acro-, arco, ocra

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔr.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈɔɾ.ka]

Noun

orca f (plural orques)

1. orca

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

Noun

orca f (plural orcas)

1. orca, killer whale

   Synonym: candorca

Further reading

• “orca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Hungarian

Etymology

A compound of orr (“nose”) +‎ száj (“mouth”) → orrszáj, transformed to orca over the centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈort͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: or‧ca
• Rhymes: -t͡sɒ

Noun

orca (plural orcák)

1. (archaic) cheek

   Holonym: (face) arc

   • 1872, Mór Jókai, Az arany ember^[2] (Timar’s Two Worlds),^[3] part 1, chapter 2, translated by Mrs. Hegan Kennard:

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• orca in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish orca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾˠkə/

Noun

orca f (genitive singular orcan, nominative plural oircne)

1. (literary) calf (of leg)

   Synonyms: colpa, pluc

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “orca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “orca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “orca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “orca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

orca f (plural orche)

1. killer whale; orca

   Synonym: balena assassina

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch hulk.

Alternative forms

• urca, ulca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈor.ka/
• Rhymes: -orka
• Hyphenation: ór‧ca

Noun

orca f (plural orche)

1. (nautical, historical) hulk (large ship used for transportation)

Further reading

• orca¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• orca² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• acro, acro-, arco, arcò, caro, ocra, roca

Latin

Etymology

Either borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕρχη (húrkhē, “earthen fish-salting vessel”), or else both borrowed separately from a substrate Mediterranean language. The sense of whale is likely influenced by ὄρυξ (órux, “pickaxe; oryx; narwhal”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ka/, [ˈɔrkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.ka/, [ˈɔrkä]

Noun

orca f (genitive orcae); first declension

1. orc, orca (kind of whale)
2. butt, tun (large-bellied vessel)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• urceus

Descendants

• → Proto-West Germanic: *ork (see there for further descendants)
• Spanish: orca
• Portuguese: orca
• Italian: orca
• Galician: orca
• French: orque
  • → English: orc
• Catalan: orca
• Romanian: orca
• → English: orca
  • → Cebuano: orca
• → Dutch: orka
• → German: Orca
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: орца
  • Latin script: orka
• → Polish: orka
  • → Kashubian: órka

References

• “orca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “orca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orca 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)
• orca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “orca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “orca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: or‧ca

Noun

orca f (plural orcas)

1. orca

   Synonym: baleia-assassina

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɾka/ [ˈoɾ.ka]
• Rhymes: -oɾka
• Syllabification: or‧ca
• Homophone: horca

Noun

orca f (plural orcas, masculine orco, masculine plural orcos)

1. orca, killer whale

   Synonym: ballena asesina

Further reading

• “orca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• arco, caro, cora, raco, roca

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