different between orca vs ocra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orca (“tun, cask; whale”), see there for more. Although the origin is obscure, the sometimes-cited association with orcus (“underworld”) is folk-etymology.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?).k?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k?

Noun

orca (plural orcas or orca)

1. A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale.

   Synonyms: grampus, killer whale, blackfish

Translations

See also

• ork, orc

Anagrams

• AOCR, Arco, Caro, Cora, RAOC, Roca, acro, acro-, arco, ocra

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /???.k?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /??r.k?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /???.ka/

Noun

orca f (plural orques)

1. orca

Further reading

• “orca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

Noun

orca f (plural orcas)

1. orca, killer whale

   Synonym: candorca

Further reading

• “orca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Hungarian

Etymology

A compound of orr (“nose”) +? száj (“mouth”) ? orrszáj, transformed to orca over the centuries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ort?s?]
• Hyphenation: or?ca
• Rhymes: -t?s?

Noun

orca (plural orcák)

1. (archaic) cheek

   Holonym: (face) arc

   • 1844, Sándor Pet?fi, János vitéz,^[1] chapter 4, stanza 5, lines 1–2, translated by John Ridland:^[2]

     „Hej, Iluskám! hogyne volnék én halovány, / Mikor szép orcádat utószor látom tán…”

     “Oh, Nelly love! How could I help but look white, / When your lovely face soon will be torn from my sight…”

   • 1872, Mór Jókai, Az arany ember,^[3] part 1, chapter 2:

     A kormányos ölnyi termet? kemény férfi volt, er?sen rezes arcszínnel, a két orcáján a pirosság vékony hajszálerek szövevényében fejezte ki magát, mikt?l a szeme fehére is recés volt.

     The steersman is a six-foot weather-beaten sailor with a very red face, whose color on both cheeks comes from a network of veins with which the white of the eye is also transfused.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• orca in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish orca.

Pronunciation

Noun

orca f (genitive singular orcan, nominative plural oircne)

1. (anatomy, literary) calf (of leg)

   Synonyms: colpa, pluc

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "orca" 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) , “orca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “orca” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “orca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r.ka/

Noun

orca f (plural orche)

1. killer whale; orca

   Synonym: balena assassina

Anagrams

• acro, arco, caro, ocra, roca

Latin

Etymology

Either borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (húrkh?, “earthen fish-salting vessel”), or else both borrowed separately from a substrate Mediterranean language. The sense of whale is likely influenced by ???? (órux, “pickaxe; oryx; narwhal”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?or.ka/, [??rkä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?or.ka/, [??rk?]

Noun

orca f (genitive orcae); first declension

1. orc, orca (kind of whale)
2. butt, tun (large-bellied vessel)

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• orca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• orca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• orca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• orca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• orca in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /???.k?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???.k?/
• Hyphenation: or?ca

Noun

orca f (plural orcas)

1. orca

   Synonym: baleia-assassina

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin orca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ka/, [?o?.ka]
• Hyphenation: or?ca
• Homophone: horca

Noun

orca f (plural orcas, masculine orco, masculine plural orcos)

1. orca, killer whale

   Synonym: ballena asesina

Anagrams

• arco, caro, cora, raco, roca

Further reading

• “orca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

ocra (countable and uncountable, plural ocras)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of okra.
   • 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pp. 59–60:

     ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...

   • 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., Vol. I, p. 222:

     Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.

References

• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004

Anagrams

• AOCR, Arco, Caro, Cora, RAOC, Roca, acro, acro-, arco, orca

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: ocras, ocrât

Verb

ocra

1. third-person singular past historic of ocrer

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”).

Adjective

ocra (invariable)

1. tawny

Noun

ocra f (plural ocre)

1. ochre

Anagrams

• acro
• arco
• caro
• orca
• roca

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ocre
• oca (dated, colloquial)

Noun

ocra f (plural ocras)

1. ochre (earth pigment containing silica, aluminium and ferric oxide)

Spanish

Etymology

From a West African language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ok?a/, [?o.k?a]

Noun

ocra m (plural ocras)

1. (El Salvador) okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

   Synonym: quingombó

Further reading

• “ocra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.