Noun: orca
Gender: f
Hyphenation: òr‧ca
ór‧ca
| Singular f | orca |
| Plural f | orche |
Sample Sentences
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Vi fu legata pur quella mattina,
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Dove venia per trangughiarla viva
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Quel smisurato Mostro Orca marina,
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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) [1516, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto decimo [Canto 10]”, in Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland], Venice: Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, page 41:]
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Per quelle cave algose,
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Preda d’orche voraci, e d’onde avare (Through those caves filled with seaweeds, prey to voracious orcas, and ungenerous waves) [1619, Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, La fiera, published 1726, page 198:]
Nouns inflected like orca
demoltiplica,
sariga,
scocca,
scolca,
transcaratteristica,
fotoelettrica,
ultracentrifuga,
stereomeccanica,
pulcesecca,
analisi matematica,
criminalistica,
geomatematica,
autopubblica,
nutraceutica,
retorica,
registroteca,
microplastica,
farmacofisica,
aerofisica,
iconoteca, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin orca.
Verbs referencing "orca"
English Nouns
orc.
Translations