different between orc vs orm

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle French orque, Italian orca, and their source, Latin orca (“type of whale”).

Noun

orc (plural orcs)

1. (archaic) Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale. [from 16th c.]

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc (“demon”); both from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”). Doublet of ogre.

Noun

orc (plural orcs)

1. (fantasy, mythology) A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, occasionally porcine, usually quite aggressive and often green. [from 17th c.]
   • 1656, Samuel Holland, Don Zara del Fogo, I.1:

     Who at one stroke didst pare away three heads from off the shoulders of an Orke, begotten by an Incubus.

   • 1834, "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:

     The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).

   • 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring:

     There was a flash like flame and the helm burst asunder. The orc fell with cloven head.

Hypernyms

• greenskin

Derived terms

Descendants

All are borrowed. Some listed may be semantic loans.

Translations

See also

• ogre
• goblin
• troll

Anagrams

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, ROC, cor, cor-, roc

Catalan

Noun

orc m (plural orcs)

1. An orc.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ork/, [or?k]

Etymology 1

Compare Old Saxon ork.

Noun

orc m (nominative plural orcas)

1. cup, tankard

Declension

Etymology 2

From Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”).

Noun

orc m

1. a demon
2. hell

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *?orkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pór?os. Cognate with Latin porcus and English farrow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ork/

Noun

orc m

1. piglet

   Synonym: banb

Declension

Mutation

Descendants

• Irish: arc
• Manx: ark

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “orc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English orc.

Noun

orc m (plural orcs)

1. (fantasy) orc (evil, monstrous humanoid creature)

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, cognate with English worm, German Wurm. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *wr?mis, which is also the source of Latin vermis (“worm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o??rm/, [?o???m]

Noun

orm c (singular definite ormen, plural indefinite orme or orm)

1. worm
2. grub
3. maggot

Declension

Derived terms

• regnorm (“earthworm”)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (stressed) /?????m?/, (unstressed) /???m?/

Pronoun

orm (emphatic ormsa)

1. first-person singular of ar: on me

References

• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. I, p. 196.
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe, 1977, Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht, 2nd edition, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 299.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse ormr (“snake, worm”), from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (“worm, snake”), from Proto-Indo-European *wr?mis (“worm”), possibly from *wer- (“to burn”).

Noun

orm m (definite singular ormen, indefinite plural ormer, definite plural ormene)

1. a snake
2. a worm

Synonyms

• slange (snake)

Derived terms

• hoggorm
• hudorm
• rundorm
• sjøorm

References

• “orm” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?mis. Akin to English worm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rm/

Noun

orm m (definite singular ormen, indefinite plural ormar, definite plural ormane)

1. a snake
2. a worm

Synonyms

• slange (snake)

Derived terms

• hoggorm
• hudorm
• rundorm
• sjøorm

References

• “orm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish form. Cognates include Irish orm and Manx orrym.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????m/

Pronoun

orm

1. first-person singular of air: on me

Inflection

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ormber (“snake, vermin, ringworm”), from Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr?mis, *wrmo- (“serpent, scorpion, maggot, worm”), maybe from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn”). Akin to English worm, wyrm. Doublet of vurm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rm/

Noun

orm c

1. (zoology) snake; a legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• mask (“worm”)
• larv (“larva”)

Anagrams

• Rom, mor, rom