Noun: arca
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Genitive
| Singular | arcae |
| Plural | arcārum |
Dative
| Singular | arcae |
| Plural | arcīs |
Accusative
| Singular | arcam |
| Plural | arcās |
Sample Sentences
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Arca, this time in Latin, is the chest, the "ark of acacia wood," which contains the stone Tablets; but arca is also the cupboard, the coffin, the prison cell, or the cistern, the reservoir. [1995, Jacques Derrida, translated by Eric Prenowitz, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, translation of Mal d'Archive: une impression freudienne (in French), page 23:]
Nouns inflected like arca
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *arkā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-eh₂ or from the Proto-Italic form *arkeō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-.
Verbs referencing "arca"
Latin Nouns
arx, English Nouns
ark, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
ark, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
ark, Swedish Nouns
ark, Finnish Nouns
arkku, Russian Nouns
рака, Catalan Nouns
arca, Galician Nouns
arca, Italian Nouns
arca, Portuguese Nouns
arca, Spanish Nouns
arca, Gothic Nouns
𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰, Russian Nouns
раковина, Ukrainian Nouns
раковина, German Nouns
Arche, Irish Nouns
áirc, Icelandic Nouns
örk, Romanian Nouns
arcă, Old English Nouns
earc, Middle English Nouns
arke.
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