Noun: roca
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | roca |
| Plural f | rocas |
Sample Sentences
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En cada terra seu uso, en cada roca seu fuso. (In every country its customs, for every distaff its spindle.)
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Polo fio d'unha roca
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ó estagamo seme bay,
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é cortafeira coideiche
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que acababa de finar. (By the thread of a distaff
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my stomach is going away,
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and Wednesday I though
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that I had just died.) [1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:]
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Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano. (The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax on the distaff, for the year's cloth.) [1889, Xulio Alonso Sánchez, O Chufón:]
Nouns inflected like roca
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Perhaps from Gothic *𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌺𐌰 (*rukka); or, given its open stressed vowel, rather from a West Germanic cognate of it (compare Old High German rocko), from Proto-Germanic *rukkô. Cognate with Portuguese roca and Spanish rueca. See: Portuguese Nouns '
roca', Spanish Nouns '
rueca'.
Verbs referencing "roca"
Portuguese Nouns
roca.
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