porca

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔr.ka/, [ˈpɔr̺kä]
• Stress: pòrca
• Hyphenation: por‧ca

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

porca f (plural porche)

1. the ridge between two furrows; balk

   Synonym: prosa (Northern Italy)

From Latin porca (“sow”).

porca f (plural porche)

1. sow
2. (figuratively) A lascivious or lewd woman.

• (sow): scrofa, troia, maiala

• porco

porca

1. Feminine singular of adjective porco.

• porca puttana

• capro, carpo, copra, parco

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpor.ka/, [ˈpɔr.ka]

Feminine of porcus.

porca f (genitive porcae); first declension

1. sow (female pig)

First declension.

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

• (male pig): porcus

From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂. Compare English furrow.

porca f (genitive porcae); first declension

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

First declension.

• Italian: porca
• Romanian: porcoi
• Old Spanish: puerca
  • Spanish: aporcar

• 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, 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

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

• (Paulista) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹ.ka/, /ˈpɔɹ.kɐ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɻ.ka/
• Hyphenation: por‧ca

porca f (plural porcas)

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

• (nut): rosca

• (nut): parafuso

• porca-marinha

• porcaria
• porco