paca

 

Via Spanish paca and Portuguese paca, from Guaraní paka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpækə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækə

paca (plural pacas)

1. Any of the large rodents of the genus Cuniculus (but see also its synonyms), native to Central America and South America, which have dark brown or black fur, a white or yellowish underbelly and rows of white spots along the sides.

• gibnut (Belize)
• labba (Guyana)
• royal rat

• lowland paca (Cuniculus paca)
• mountain paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii)
• pacarana

• Cuniculus hernandezi
•   paca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• AACP, ACPA, APAC, APCA, CAAP, CAPA, PAAc, capa

• IPA^(key): /paːka/

pāca

1. (transitive) to wash

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 244
• Campbell, R. Joe (1997) “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2011
• Karttunen, Francis (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 182
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 228

From Arabic بَاعَ (bāʕa).

paca I (present pipece) (transitive)

1. to sell

From Arabic بَعْدُ (baʕdu).

paca

1. still, not yet

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 161
• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 171

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): [ˈpat͡sa]
• Rhymes: -at͡sa
• Hyphenation: pa‧ca

paca (accusative singular pacan, plural pacaj, accusative plural pacajn)

1. peaceful, not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil
2. peaceful, motionless and calm

• pacema

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒt͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧ca
• Rhymes: -t͡sɒ

paca (plural pacák)

1. (informal) inkspot

• tintafolt
• tintapaca

• pacáz
• tintapaca

• paca in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• puca (Cois Fharraige)

Borrowed from Middle English pakke

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠɑkə/
• (Cois Fharraige, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈpˠakə/

paca m (genitive singular paca, nominative plural pacaí)

1. pack (bundle to be carried)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “paca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “paca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “paca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: pà‧ca

Via Spanish paca, from Guaraní paka.

paca m (invariable)

1. (zoology) paca

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paca

1. inflection of pacare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• capa

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.kaː/, [ˈpäːkäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ka/, [ˈpäːkä]

pācā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pācō

paca

1. inflection of pacati (“to cook”):
   1. second-person singular imperative active
   2. first/third-person singular imperfect active

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.t͡sa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -at͡sa
• Syllabification: pa‧ca
• Homophone: Paca

Deverbal from pacać.

paca f

1. (construction) trowel, smoother, skimmer (tool for applying a smooth layer of mortar, plaster, etc.)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paca m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of pac

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paca

1. third-person singular present of pacać

• paca in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• paca in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧ca

Borrowed from Old Tupi paka.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (Brazil) paca (rodent of the genus Cuniculus)
   1. (Brazil, by extension, cooking) dish made of its meat
2. (Brazil) mole cricket

   Synonyms: grilo-toupeira, (Brazil) paquinha, (Portugal) ralo

paca m (plural pacas)

1. (Brazil, derogatory) homosexual man
2. (Brazil, colloquial) naive (one that lacks worldly experience); a fool

paca m or f (plural pacas)

1. (colloquial) naive

• → English: paca
• → Galician: paca

Alternative form of pacas.

paca (not comparable)

1. (Brazil, familiar) a lot; super

Borrowed from Kabuverdianu paka.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (Cape Verde) mallet

From Middle French pacque, Old French pakke, from Dutch pak.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (dated) package

   Synonyms: pacote, embrulho

2. (dated) a kind of tree fom Portuguese India

Unknown

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (colloquial, Angola) money

• “paca”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “paca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “paca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaka/ [ˈpa.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: pa‧ca

Borrowed from Old French pacque, from Middle Dutch pak, from Old Dutch *pakko, from Frankish *pakkō, from Proto-Germanic *pakkô.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. bale (bundle)

   Synonyms: fardo, lío

Unknown; see paco

paca f (plural pacas)

1. female equivalent of paco (“police officer”)

Borrowed from Guaraní paka.

paca f (plural pacas)

1. (chiefly Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) paca (rodent of the genus Cuniculus)

   Synonyms: (Colombian Amazonia) boruga, (Panama) conejo pintado, (Colombia) guagua, (Ecuador) guanta, (Northwestern Colombia) guartinaja, (Bolivia) jochi pintado, (Venezuela, Colombian Llanos) lapa, (Peru) majaz, tepezcuintle, (Mexico, Central America) tepezcuinte, (Northeastern Colombia) tinajo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

paca f

1. feminine singular of paco

• “paca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28