arca

arca

1. Romanization of ᬅᬃᬘᬵ.

Inherited from Latin arca.

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

arca f (plural arques)

1. chest, coffer
2. ark (boat)

• Arca de l'Aliança
• arca de Noè

• arquilla

• bagul, cofre

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka̝/

arca f (plural arcas)

1. (nautical, dated) starboard

   Synonym: estribor

   Synonyms: couso, babor

From Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, arqua, from Latin arca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka̝/

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark; chest; coffer

   Synonym: hucha

2. box; casket

   Synonym: couselo

3. (historical, architecture) brattice (of a castle)
4. dolmen, megalith

   Synonyms: anta, forno

5. thoracic cavity

   Synonym: cavidade torácica

• “arca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “arca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “arca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “arca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “arca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

arc (“face”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒrt͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

arca

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of arc

   Felderült az arca. ― His/her face brightened.

• arca verítékével

From Malay arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈart͡ʃa]
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

arca

1. idol, a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

• “arca” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Latin arca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/
• Rhymes: -arka
• Hyphenation: àr‧ca

arca f (plural arche)

1. ark (casket or tomb)

• arca di Noè (“Noah's ark”)
• arcaro

• arac, cara

• archa (Medieval Latin, common)

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

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

1. chest, box, coffer, safe (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape)
2. coffin (box for the dead)
3. ark (kind of ship)
   1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Noah's Ark
4. (Judaism) Ark of the Covenant

First-declension noun.

• arcārius
• arcella
• arcula

• arcānō
• arcānus
• arceō

• “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arca 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)
• arca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
    
• “arca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “arca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “arca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ˈart͡ʃə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈart͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃə, -ə

arca (Jawi spelling ارچا, plural arca-arca, informal 1st possessive arcaku, 2nd possessive arcamu, 3rd possessive arcanya)

1. sculpture, idol
2. a shadow that can be seen in the mirror, through a camera lens or when dreaming
3. (computing) icon

• “arca” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

• IPA^(key): /ar.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃa
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

arca

1. image, cult-statue

• Javanese: ꦉꦕ (reca, “statue”)
• → Balinese: ᬅᬃᬘᬵ (arca, “statue”)

• "arca" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

• archa (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -aɾkɐ
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, borrowed from Latin arca. First attested in 1109.[1]

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark
   • 1996, Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem: poemas esotéricos : edição crítica, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, →ISBN:

     ... certo tipo de «divisões» que lhe permitissem a arrumação dos seus papéis «na devida ordem», de modo a substituir a sua «caixa grande» (a famosa e mítica arca?

     ... a certain type of «divisions» that would allow him to arrange his papers «in due order», in order to replace his «big box» (the famous and mythical ark?) ...) ...

2. (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)
3. (malacology) ark clam (mollusc in the genus Arca)
4. (dated) coffer (strong chest used for keeping valuables safe)
5. (by extension, dated) coffer (a supply of money belonging to an organization)
6. (dated) thorax
7. (Brazil, colloquial) pawnshop

   Synonym: casa de penhores

8. (Trás-os-Montes) hug

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arca

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

• “arca” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “arca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “arca” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “arca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Inherited from Old Spanish arca, archa, from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“to enclose”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾka/ [ˈaɾ.ka]

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• Rhymes: -aɾka
• Syllabification: ar‧ca

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark, chest

   Synonym: cofre

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el arca, un arca

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

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

• cara