auca

See also: Auca

English

Noun

auca (plural aucas)

1. A traditional form of art from Catalonia, consisting of a comic-like series of images with text captions, often rhyming couplets.

Latin

Alternative forms

• auga

Etymology

From av- (“bird”) +‎ -ica (relational suffix), with regular syncope of /ĭ/. Compare Latin auceps < *awikaps or aucella < avicella.

Attested in Avienius and late glosses.

Noun

auca f (genitive aucae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. goose

   Synonym: ānser

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	auca	aucae
genitive	aucae	aucārum
dative	aucae	aucīs
accusative	aucam	aucās
ablative	aucā	aucīs
vocative	auca	aucae

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • jauca
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: oca
    • → Sardinian: oca
  • Sicilian: oca
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: ocje, auce
  • Istriot: uoca
  • Ladin: alcia
  • Piedmontese: òca
  • Romansch: auca, oca, ocha
  • Venetan: oca
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: oca
  • Franco-Provençal: ôca, ôye
  • Old French: oie, oe, oue
    • Franc-Comtois: ôye
    • French: oie
    • Norman: ouaïe (Guernsey), ouaie (Jersey), ouée (continental Normandy)
  • Gascon: auca
    • → Aragonese: auca
  • Occitan: auca
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Leonese: ouca
  • Portuguese: Ouca (toponym)
  • Spanish: oca

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “auca”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 69

Further reading

• auca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• aucha (Auvergne, Limousin)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Occitan auca, from Late Latin auca, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Catalan oca, French oie, Franco-Provençal oye, Spanish oca, Italian oca, Romansh auca, ocha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈawko]

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Noun

auca f (plural aucas)

1. goose

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 37.
• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 129.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• oca (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• ocha (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin auca, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Friulian ocje, Italian and Venetan oca, Dalmatian jauca, Occitan auca, Catalan oca, French oie.

Noun

auca f (plural aucas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) goose

Spanish

Noun

auca f (plural aucas)

1. auca
2. pond water-crowfoot

Further reading

• “auca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10