Hungarian

Noun

arca

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

   Nagyon szép arca van.‎ ― She has a beautiful face.

Declension

Derived terms

• arca verítékével

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arca.

Noun

arca f ‎(plural arche)

1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms

• arca di Noè - Noah's ark
• arcaro

Anagrams

• arac
• cara

Latin

Etymology

From arceō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/

Noun

arca f ‎(genitive arcae); first declension

1. chest, box, coffer (safe place for storing items)

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• arcārius
• arcella
• arcula

Related terms

• arcānō
• arcānus
• arceō

Descendants

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “arca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.kɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaʁ.kɐ/
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese arca, archa, from Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark; chest; coffer
   • 1996, Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem: poemas esotéricos : edição crítica, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica (ISBN 9788489666276)

     ... 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?) ...

2. (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)

Etymology 2

Verb

arca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of arcar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of arcar

Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

arca f ‎(plural arcas)

1. ark, chest

Usage notes

• The feminine noun arca is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el arca

• However, if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Derived terms

• arca de Noé - Noah's ark
• arca de la Alianza - Ark of the Covenant