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foca

See also: FOCA, Foça, and focă

Catalan

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Borrowed from Latin phōca.

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foca f (plural foques)

  1. (mammals) seal
    Synonyms: llop marí, llop de mar, vell marí, serena

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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From foco (“hollow”).

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foca f (plural focas)

  1. hole, piercing
    • c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
      Mordesme en Papeliños,
      que leeron moitas Xentes:
      mordes me, chantasme os dentes
      chantame agora os focinos:
      si lendo estes meus termiños
      fixères xestos, ou mocas,
      ê contra min te desuocas,
      ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
      e focas no Corpo abrirme,
      Chantame as mocas nas focas.
      You bite me in little papers
      that many people have read
      You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
      Thrust now your snout
      If reading these my terms
      You do gestures or grimaces
      and against me you run off at the mouth
      and with clubs you want to injure me
      and holes in my body open
      Thrust the clubs into my holes

Etymology 2

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Learned borrowing from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

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foca f (plural focas)

  1. (mammals) seal

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē). Compare French phoque.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.ka/
  • Rhymes: -ɔka
  • Hyphenation: fò‧ca

Noun

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foca f (plural foche)

  1. (mammals) seal
    Synonym: vecchio marino

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Portuguese

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foca

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  • Hyphenation: fo‧ca

Etymology 1

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From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

Noun

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foca f (plural focas)

  1. (mammals) seal

foca m or f by sense (plural focas)

  1. (Brazil, journalism) a journalist at the start of his/her career
    • 1989, Paulo Rangel, O Assassinato do Conto Policial, FTD, →ISBN, page 10:
      — Por falar nisso, sabe o que é um foca?
      — Sei — disse Cotoxó.
      — Que é? Diga!
      — Foca é um repórter em início de carreira, que ganha mal, se veste mal, come mal, escreve mal, só diz bobagens, não tem cultura, é tido como idiota e um dia se torna chefe da redação.
      “By the way, do you know what a seal is?”
      “Yes”, said Cotoxó.
      “What is it? Tell me!”
      “A seal is a reporter at the beginning of his career, who earns badly, dresses badly, eats badly, writes badly, says nothing but nonsense, has no culture, is considered an idiot and one day becomes head of the newsroom.”
  2. an avaricious individual
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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foca

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

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Romanian

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foca f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of focă

Spanish

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La foca besó al capitán en la mejilla. ― The seal kissed the captain on the cheek.

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfoka/ [ˈfo.ka]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Syllabification: fo‧ca

Noun

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foca f (plural focas)

  1. seal (animal belonging to the parvorder Pinnipedia of semi-aquatic marine mammals)
    Synonyms: lobo marino, lobo del mar
    • 1621, Lope de Vega Carpio, “La Andromeda”, in La Filomena con otras diuerſas Rimas, Proſas y Verſos, Madrid: Francisca de Medina, page 106:
      Con fieras anſias, con mayor trabajo,
      La Foca ſepultaua la grandeza
      Del monſtruoſo cuerpo entre las olas,
      Si bien moſtraua ya las fuentes ſolas.
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    • 1932, M[iguel] Mihura, “Tres sombreros de copa”, in Tres sombreros de copa, Editora Nacional, published 1947, Act I:
      Estoy tan acostumbrado a bañarme en Noruega, que no puedo habituarme a estar en el agua sin tener un par de focas junto a mí.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (colloquial) whale (fat person)

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  • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca

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Tetelcingo Nahuatl

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish foca.

Noun

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foca (plural focas)

  1. seal (animal)
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