arca
Latin
noun
Definitions
- chest, box, coffer, safe safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape
- coffin box for the dead
- ark kind of ship
- (Judaism) Ark of the Covenant
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (guard, protect, hold, shut in).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂erk-
Gloss
guard, protect, hold, shut in
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
💂 💂♀️ 💂♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- arc- English
- arcane English
- arcanely English
- arcaneness English
- arcanist English
- arcanology English
- arciform English
- arculus English
- arcus English
- ark English
- coerce English
- coercion English
- gonarcus English
- arkku Finnish
- *arcio Latin
- Orcus Latin
- arcanus Latin
- arcarius Latin
- arcella Latin
- arcera Latin
- arcionem, *arcio Latin
- arcuarius Latin
- arcuatus Latin
- arcuballista Latin
- arcula Latin
- arcuo Latin
- arcus Latin
- arcānus Latin
- arcārius Latin
- arx Latin
- coerceo Latin
- exerceo Latin
- exercitium Latin
- exercitāre Latin
- exercitātiōnem Latin
- porceo Latin
- arkan German
- arca Italian
- arcata Italian
- archivolto Italian
- arco Italian
- arsella Italian
- bisarca Italian
- arbalète French
- arche French
- аркко́синус Russian
- арккосеканс Russian
- арккосинус Russian
- арккота́нгенс Russian
- арксеканс Russian
- аркси́нус Russian
- аркта́нгенс Russian
- арктангенс Russian
- рака Russian
- arca Spanish, Castilian
- arco Spanish, Castilian
- ἀρκέω Ancient Greek
- *h₂erk- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂erkʷo- Proto-Indo-European
- ark Norwegian Bokmål
- *arkō Proto-Germanic
- ark Swedish
- arkusz Polish
- ark Norwegian Nynorsk
- ærc Old English
- arch Middle English
- áirc Irish
- ǫrk Old Norse
- ark Danish
- arc Old French
- arche Old French
- arquire Old French
- arko Esperanto
- örk Icelandic
- arc Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ارگ Persian
- arch Welsh
- archeb Welsh
- cyfarch Welsh
- arka Latvian
- áirc, árc Old Irish
- ärkēr (in rhyme with mēr), ärker or ærker (in rhyme with der) Middle High German
- arkë Albanian
- hark Albanian
- 𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰 Gothic
- arco Old Portuguese
- ark Middle Low German
- arcu Aromanian
- ark Old Swedish
- *arkeō Proto-Italic
- *pe-arkō, *pearkō Proto-Italic
- arcu Asturian
- рака Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- arc Friulian
- arc Old Occitan
- рака Old East Slavic
- раковина Old East Slavic
- arca Old Spanish
- arcu Sicilian
- arconbè Venetian
- *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ Proto-Norse