Translingual

Phoca vitulina

Proper noun

Phoca f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Phocidae – a genus of earless seals.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Trechnotheria - subclass; Zatheria - infraclass; Theria - supercohort; Eutheria - infraclass; Epitheria - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Carnivora - order; Caniformia - suborder; Phocidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Phoca largha, Phoca vitulina - species
  • Phoca fasciata, Phoca caspica, Phoca hispida, Phoca sibirica, Phoca groenlandica - species formerly included in Phoca

English

Noun

phoca ‎(plural phocas or phocae)

1. (obsolete except as Phoca) A seal.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     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.

Anagrams

• copha, poach

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φώκη ‎(phṓkē).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰoː.ka/

Noun

phōca f ‎(genitive phōcae); first declension

1. seal (marine animal)

Declension

First declension.

Descendants

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “phoca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.