different between orc vs torc

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)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??(?)k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k
• Homophones: torq, torque, talk ('talk' in non-rhotic accents only)

Noun

torc (plural torcs)

1. Alternative spelling of torque (necklace)

Anagrams

• -cort, -cort-, COTR, Cort, Octr, Octr., ROTC, Troc, cort-, ctor

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• torcu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *torc?, from Latin torque?. Compare Romanian toarce, torc.

Verb

torc (third-person singular present indicative tortsi, past participle torse)

1. I spin (yarn).

Related terms

• turtseri
• tors
• stãcor
• turte

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /t?????k/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /t?????k/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish torc¹, from Proto-Celtic *torkos (“boar”).

Noun

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. wild boar (Sus scrofa)
2. portly, corpulent, person; man of substance

Derived terms

• toirceoil f (“boar meat, brawn”)
• torcán m (“little, young, boar; small corpulent person”)
• torc-chú m (“boarhound”)
• torcshleá f (“boar-spear”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish torc², from Latin torquis.

Noun

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. torque (braided necklace or collar)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English torque, from Latin torque? (“I twist”).

Noun

torc m (genitive singular toirc, nominative plural toirc)

1. (physics) torque

Declension

Mutation

References

• "torc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 torc (‘collar, torque’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tork/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *torkos (“boar”) (compare Welsh twrch).

Noun

torc m

1. boar
2. chieftain, hero

Inflection

Derived terms

• torcda

Descendants

• Irish: torc
• Scottish Gaelic: torc

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin torquis.

Noun

torc m

1. torque (necklace)

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: torc

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 torc (‘collar, torque’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Verb

torc

1. first-person singular present indicative of toarce
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of toarce
3. third-person plural present indicative of toarce

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish torc¹, from Proto-Celtic *torkos (“boar”).

Noun

torc m (genitive singular tuirc, plural tuirc)

1. boar

Derived terms

• torc allaidh
• torc fiadhaich

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 torc (‘boar’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language