Noun: furca
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Nominative
| Singular | furca |
| Plural | furcae |
Genitive
| Singular | furcae |
| Plural | furcārum |
Dative
| Singular | furcae |
| Plural | furcīs |
Accusative
| Singular | furcam |
| Plural | furcās |
Ablative
| Singular | furcā |
| Plural | furcīs |
Vocative
| Singular | furca |
| Plural | furcae |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like furca
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Of uncertain origin.
2. In its primary sense of "fork", furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In the other senses, this derivation is unlikely. For those, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).
3. Compare also Lithuanian žer̃gti (“to spread the legs”), ži̇̀rklės (“scissors”), though the mismatch of the vowels between the Lithuanian and Latin forms is hard to explain. See: Old English Nouns '
forclas', Old Norse Nouns '
forkr'.
Verbs referencing "furca"
English Nouns
fork, Danish Nouns
fork, Catalan Nouns
forca, Italian Nouns
forca, Portuguese Nouns
forca, Dutch Nouns
vork, French Nouns
fourche, Spanish Nouns
horca, Middle English Nouns
forke, Irish Nouns
forc, Romanian Nouns
furcă, German Nouns
Forke, Galician Nouns
forcado, Spanish Nouns
forqueta, Romanian Nouns
furcătură, Galician Nouns
furco.
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