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orca

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See also: Orca and orça

English

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Orcas

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin orca (“tun, cask; whale”), see there for more. Although the origin is obscure, the sometimes-cited association with orcus (“underworld”) is folk-etymology. Doublet of orc.

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Noun

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orca (plural orcas or orca)

  1. A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.
    Synonyms: blackfish, grampus, killer, killer whale, (archaic) orc
    • 1876, Alexander Schultz, “Account of the Fisheries and Seal-Hunting in the White Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and the Caspian Sea”, in United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part III. Report of the Commissioner for 1873-4 and 1874-5., Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 55:
      In the summer, when the weather is calm and beautiful, large flocks of orcæ can be seen approaching the shallow places near the shore, or between the numerous islands of the White Sea. Several fishermen associate for hunting orcæ, each one furnishing a boat, and a large seine made of cords of the thickness of a finger, the meshes being 10½ inches square.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin orca.

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    orca f (plural orques)

    1. orca

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    Galician

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    Etymology

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    From Latin orca.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɔɾka/ [ˈɔɾ.kɐ]
    • Rhymes: -ɔɾka
    • Hyphenation: or‧ca

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    orca f (plural orcas)

    1. orca, killer whale
      Synonym: candorca

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    Hungarian

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    FWOTD – 4 November 2015

    Etymology

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    A compound of orr (“nose”) +‎ száj (“mouth”) → orrszáj, transformed to orca over the centuries.

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    orca (plural orcák)

    1. (archaic) cheek
      Holonym: (face) arc
      • 1844, Sándor Petőfi, translated by John Ridland, János vitéz‎[2], chapter 4, stanza 5, lines 1-2:
        „Hej, Iluskám! hogyne volnék én halovány, / Mikor szép orcádat utószor látom tán…”
        “Oh, Nelly love! How could I help but look white, / When your lovely face soon will be torn from my sight…”
      • 1872, Mór Jókai, Az arany ember[3] (Timar’s Two Worlds),[4] part 1, chapter 2, translated by Mrs. Hegan Kennard:
        A kormányos ölnyi termetű kemény férfi volt, erősen rezes arcszínnel, a két orcáján a pirosság vékony hajszálerek szövevényében fejezte ki magát, miktől a szeme fehére is recés volt.
        The steersman is a six-foot weather-beaten sailor with a very red face, whose color on both cheeks comes from a network of veins with which the white of the eye is also transfused.

    Declension

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    Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
    singular plural
    nominative orca orcák
    accusative orcát orcákat
    dative orcának orcáknak
    instrumental orcával orcákkal
    causal-final orcáért orcákért
    translative orcává orcákká
    terminative orcáig orcákig
    essive-formal orcaként orcákként
    essive-modal — —
    inessive orcában orcákban
    superessive orcán orcákon
    adessive orcánál orcáknál
    illative orcába orcákba
    sublative orcára orcákra
    allative orcához orcákhoz
    elative orcából orcákból
    delative orcáról orcákról
    ablative orcától orcáktól
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular     		orcáé orcáké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural     		orcáéi orcákéi
    Possessive forms of orca
    possessor single possession multiple possessions
    1st person sing. orcám orcáim
    2nd person sing. orcád orcáid
    3rd person sing. orcája orcái
    1st person plural orcánk orcáink
    2nd person plural orcátok orcáitok
    3rd person plural orcájuk orcáik

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    Compound words

    Further reading

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    • orca in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

    Irish

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    Etymology

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    From Old Irish orca.

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    Noun

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    orca f (genitive singular orcan, nominative plural oircne)

    1. (literary) calf (of leg)
      Synonyms: colpa, pluc

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    Declension of orca (irregular)
    bare forms
    singular plural
    nominative orca oircne
    vocative a orca a oircne
    genitive orcan orcan
    dative orca
    orcain (archaic, dialectal)     		oircne
    forms with the definite article
    singular plural
    nominative an orca na hoircne
    genitive na horcan na n-orcan
    dative leis an orca
    leis an orcain (archaic, dialectal)
    don orca
    don orcain (archaic, dialectal)     		leis na hoircne

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    Mutated forms of orca
    radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
    orca n-orca horca not applicable

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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    Italian

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    Etymology 1

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    From Latin orca.

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    orca f (plural orche)

    1. killer whale; orca
      Synonym: balena assassina
      • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto decimo [Canto 10]”, in Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland]‎[5], Venice: Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 41:
        Vi fu legata pur quella mattina,
        Dove venia per trangughiarla viva
        Quel smisurato Mostro Orca marina,
        che di abhorrevole esca si nutriva
        That morning, she was tied up there, where that enormous monster, marine orca, feeding on horrible bait, was coming to swallow her alive
      • 1619, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, La fiera‎[6], published 1726, page 198:
        Per quelle cave algose,
        Preda d’orche voraci, e d’onde avare
        Through those caves filled with seaweeds, prey to voracious orcas, and ungenerous waves

    Etymology 2

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      Borrowed from Dutch hulk.

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      Pronunciation

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      • IPA(key): /ˈor.ka/
      • Rhymes: -orka
      • Hyphenation: ór‧ca

      Noun

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      orca f (plural orche)

      1. (nautical, historical) hulk (large ship used for transportation)

      Further reading

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      • “orca1”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
      • “orca2”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

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      Latin

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      Etymology

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      Either borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕρχη (húrkhē, “earthen fish-salting vessel”), or else both borrowed separately from a substrate Mediterranean language. The sense of whale is likely influenced by ὄρυξ (órux, “pickaxe; oryx; narwhal”); it is possible that both ὕρχη (húrkhē) and ὄρυξ (órux) were conflated when borrowed into Latin.[1]

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      orca f (genitive orcae); first declension

      1. orc, orca (kind of whale)
      2. butt, tun (large-bellied vessel)

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      First-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative orca orcae
      genitive orcae orcārum
      dative orcae orcīs
      accusative orcam orcās
      ablative orcā orcīs
      vocative orca orcae

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      Descendants

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      • Catalan: orca
      • Galician: orca
      • Italian: orca
      • Middle French: orque f
      • Portuguese: orca
      • Romanian: orca
      • Spanish: orca
      • → Dutch: orka
      • → English: orca
      • → German: Orca
      • → Polish: orka, órka (Central Greater Poland)
      • → Proto-West Germanic: *ork (see there for further descendants)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • → Translingual: Orca (learned)

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      1. ^ Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “orca, -ae”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 467

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      • “orca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “orca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • "orca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
      • “orca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
      • “orca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
      • “orca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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      Etymology

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      Learned borrowing from Latin orca (“tun, cask; whale”).

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      orca f (plural orcas)

      1. orca (Orcinus orca)
        Synonym: baleia-assassina

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      Spanish

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      Etymology

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      From Latin orca.

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      orca f (plural orcas, masculine orco, masculine plural orcos)

      1. orca, killer whale
        Synonym: ballena asesina

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