different between roc vs orc

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?k, IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: rock, rawk

Etymology 1

Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic ????? (ru??), from Persian ??? (rox).

Alternative forms

• roche
• rok
• ruc
• rukh

Noun

roc (plural rocs)

1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
   • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.

     "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;

Synonyms

• peng (Chinese contexts)

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

roc

1. (medicine, colloquial) Rocuronium.

Anagrams

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, ORC, cor, cor-, orc

Catalan

Etymology

From roca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock, stone

See also

• pedra

Further reading

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

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/

Etymology 1

Variant of roche.

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock

Related terms

• roche
• rocher

Etymology 2

Old French roc, ultimately from Persian ??? (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”), possibly from Sanskrit ?? (ratha, “chariot”).

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (dated, chess) rook

Synonyms

• tour

Related terms

• roquer
• rocade

Further reading

• “roc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cor

Interlingua

Noun

roc (plural roches)

1. rook (chess piece)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. ray (fish)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish roc (“wrinkle”).

Noun

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker

Declension

Verb

roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. wrinkle, crease, pucker
2. corrugate
3. kink
4. crimp

Conjugation

Derived terms

• rocach

References

• "roc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latvian

Verb

roc

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of rakt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of rakt

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roc

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (chess) rook

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (ru??), from Persian ??? (rukh).

Noun

roc m (oblique plural ros, nominative singular ros, nominative plural roc)

1. (chess) rook

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old Khmer

Verb

roc

1. Latin script form of ???? (“to withdraw”)

Noun

roc

1. Latin script form of ???? (“fortnight following full moon”)

Old Saxon

Noun

roc m

1. Alternative spelling of rok

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)