parc

parc (plural parcs)

1. Alternative form of park (“partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown”).

• -carp, ACPR, APCR, CARP, CRAP, Carp, RCAP, carp, crap, prac

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpark]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpaɾk]
• Rhymes: -aɾk

Inherited from Old Catalan parc, from Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus.

parc m (plural parcs)

1. park

• aparcar
• parc d'atraccions
• parc infantil

• pàrquing

Learned borrowing from Latin parcus.

parc (feminine parca, masculine plural parcs, feminine plural parques)

1. frugal, sparing, moderate

   Synonym: moderat

• parquedat

• “parc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “parc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “parc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “parc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Inherited from Middle French parc m, from Old French parc m, from Early Medieval Latin parricus m, possibly borrowed from Frankish *parrik m.

• IPA^(key): /paʁk/

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parc m (plural parcs)

1. park
2. playpen (for children)
3. pen (for animals)
4. (total) number; stock (de (“of”))
5. fleet (of vehicles; of similar equipment)

   le parc de véhicules du Québec

   Quebec's vehicle fleet

   Le renouvellement de le parc nucléaire sera un grand défi.

   Renewal of the nuclear fleet will be a big challenge.

• “parc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• parque

From Old French parc.

parc m (plural parcs)

1. enclosure (enclosed area)
   • 1600, Olivier de Serres, Bonafous, Balbis, Tissot, Le Theatre d'Agriculture et Mesnage des champs d'Olivier de Serres Seigneur du Pradel, page 322

     compose-on le parc selon l'usage des lieux

     we make up the enclosure depending on the circumstances of the place

• parquet

• French: parc (see there for further descendants)

• park, parke

From Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus (“fence, enclosure”).

parc oblique singular, m (oblique plural pars, nominative singular pars, nominative plural parc)

1. enclosed area, often fenced off, often in a clearing

• Middle French: parc, parque
  • French: parc (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: parc
• → Italian: parco
• → Middle English: park, parc, parck, perke, paric
  • English: park
  • Yola: park

Borrowed from French parc, from Old French parc, from Early Medieval Latin parricus (“enclosure”), from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, fenced-in area”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence”).

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parc n (plural parcuri)

1. park; garden; terrace

• parc național
• parc sportiv
• parc zoologic

• grădină

From Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

• IPA^(key): /park/
• Rhymes: -ark

parc m (plural parciau)

1. park