coca

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊkə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊkə/
• Rhymes: -əʊkə

The leaves and fruit of a coca plant.

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

• Erythroxylum coca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Erythroxylum coca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Erythroxylum coca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.

coca (plural cocas)

1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
   • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times‎:

     A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.

• coca (pastry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• caco-

coca de Sant Joan

Borrowed from Old Dutch coca, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, related to English cake.

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

coca f (plural coques)

1. (cooking) coca (pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas)

• coca bamba
• coca de llanda

• → English: coca

Borrowed from Quechua koka.

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

coca f (plural coques)

1. (botany) coca (Erythroxylum coca)
2. (colloquial) coke (cocaine)

   Synonym: cocaïna

• cocaïna

Inherited from Old Catalan coca, from Old French coque, ultimately from Latin caudica (“small ship made of tree trunks”).

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

coca f (plural coques)

1. (nautical, historical) cog (type of sailing ship)

• “coca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• coca (pastís) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• Category:coques on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.kaː/

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• Hyphenation: co‧ca

coca f (plural coca's)

1. coca, plant of the family Erythroxylaceae
2. (uncountable) coca, consumable leaves of these plants

• cocaïne

• coke

• → Indonesian: koka

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ka/

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Apocope of Coca-Cola

coca m (plural cocas)

1. Coke (serving of Coca-Cola)
2. cola; (serving of any cola drink)
   • 2019 January 17, Amélie Petitdemange, “Dry January, Lundi Vert… des Millennials de plus en plus healthy ?”, in Les Echos:

     “Quand tu commandes un coca dans un bar, t’as l’air bizarre”, abonde Camille, étudiante en journalisme.

     "When you order a Coke in a bar, you look weird," agrees Camille, a journalism student.

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

coca m (plural cocas)

1. coca (plant)
2. (informal) cocaine

• “coca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From cocatriz, probably from Old French cocatriz, from Latin calcātrīx.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

coca m (plural cocas)

1. (mythology, folklore) cockatrice, in Galician folklore a water creature

   Synonym: cocatriz

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

     de baleas, de cocas, de orças et de todoslos outros pescados quea ẽnas agoas

     of whales, of cockatrices, of orcas and of all the other fishes that are in the waters

   • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:

     que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa

     they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (plant)
2. (informal, drugs) cocaine

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

coca f (plural cocas)

1. Alternative form of coco
2. claw (pincer of a crustacean)

From a Germanic language (compare English cog).

coca f (plural cocas)

1. (historical) cog (a clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged, single-masted mediaeval ship of burden)

• “coca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “coq” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “coca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “coca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ca

Borrowed from Spanish coca.

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
2. coca (dried leaf of Erythroxylon coca)

Ellipsis of Coca-Cola.

coca f (plural cocas)

1. Coke

Clipping of cocaína.

coca f (uncountable)

1. (slang) coke (cocaine)

Borrowed from French coca, from Spanish, from Quechua.

coca f (uncountable)

1. coca plant

• cocă

-coca

1. to chat, to discuss

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkoka/ [ˈko.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: co‧ca

Borrowed from Quechua koka or Aymara kuka (“coca”).

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America)
2. coca (the dried leaf of one of these plants)

• English: coca

Clipping of cocaína (“cocaine”).

coca f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) coke, cocaine

   Synonyms: cocaína, perico, farlopa

   Coordinate terms: meta, hierba

Clipping of English Coca-Cola.

coca f (plural cocas)

1. Coke (Coca-Cola, a trademarked soft drink)

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

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-coca

1. to chat

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coca

1. Alternative spelling of côca.

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-coca

1. to become clean

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