croca

• crouca

Probably from Proto-Celtic *kroukā (“mound”), and hence a cognate of Old Irish cruach (“pile, heap”)^[1] and Icelandic hraukur (“pile, stack”), from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɾɔkɐ]

croca f (plural crocas)

1. tailhead
2. sirloin; a cut of meat from the rump of an animal
3. (informal) head
4. dry chestnut

• crocar (“to become bent”)
• escrocar (“to harm the tailhead of an animal”)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “croca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “croca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “croca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• croc, cróca, próca^[1]

From Middle English crokke, from Old English crocca, from Proto-West Germanic *kroggō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾˠokə/

croca m (genitive singular croca, nominative plural crocaí)

1. crock (earthenware jar)

• crocadóir
• crocán
• croca simléir

• corcán

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “croca”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 267; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “croca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

croca

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of crocum

• "croca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)