phoca

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊkə/

phoca (plural phocas or phocae)

1. (obsolete) A seal. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     His charet swift in haste he thither steard,
     Which with a teeme of scaly Phocas bound
     Was drawne vpon the waues, that fomed him around.

   • 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 68:

     With tangled fins, behind, huge Phocæ glide,
     And Whales and Grampi swell the distant tide.

• copha, phaco, phaco-, poach

• phōcē

From Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoː.ka/, [ˈpʰoːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ka/, [ˈfɔːkä]

phōca f (genitive phōcae); first declension

1. seal (marine animal)

First-declension noun.

• “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “phoca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• phoca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.