pork
Middle English
/poːrk/
noun
Definitions
- pork; pig meat
- swine, pig
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French porc (pig, hog, pork, swine) derived from Latin porcus (pig, domestic hog, pork, domesticated hog).
Origin
Latin
porcus
Gloss
pig, domestic hog, pork, domesticated hog
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Classifier
Kanji
豚
Emoji
🐗 🐷 🐽
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Porkopolis English
- antipork English
- nonpork English
- pork English
- porkalicious English
- porkburger English
- porker English
- porkish English
- porkless English
- porklike English
- porkling English
- porkman English
- porkmeister English
- porkwood English
- porky English
- *porcopiscis Latin
- cōrtis, cōrs, cors Latin
- porcaricia Latin
- porcarius Latin
- porcella Latin
- porcellus Latin
- porcile Latin
- porculus Latin
- porcus Latin
- porcāricia Latin
- porcārius Latin
- porcīle Latin
- porco Italian
- puercoespín Spanish, Castilian
- πόρκος Ancient Greek
- *perḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *porḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *pórḱos Proto-Indo-European
- ポーク Japanese
- purka Old Norse
- porc Old French
- porc-espin Old French
- porko Esperanto
- porc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- porko Ido
- por Norman
- porc Middle French
- porco Old Portuguese
- porcu Aromanian
- *porkos Proto-Italic
- piertg Romansh
- portg Romansh
- püerch Romansh
- puercu Asturian
- porcarie Friulian
- purcit Friulian
- porc Old Occitan
- puerco Old Spanish
- pòrco Ligurian
- puarc Dalmatian
- porcu Corsican
- pôrz Emilian
- pōrc Emilian