porc

• porcu

From Latin porcus. Compare Romanian porc.

porc m (plural ports)

1. pig

• porche
• purtsel, purtsiau
• purcar

Inherited from Old Catalan porc, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔrk]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpɔɾk]

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porc m (plural porcs)

1. pig, swine
2. pork

   Synonym: carn de porc

• porc senglar

• porcell
• porquer
• porquerol

• “porc”, 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
• “porc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “porc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “porc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French porc, from Old French porc, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ/

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• Homophones: porcs, port, ports

porc m (plural porcs)

1. pork
2. pig

   Synonym: cochon

3. (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) dirty pig, swine, contemptible person

   sale porc!

• Used as an insult, the word porc is rather harsh or even dirty (especially with epithets such as "sale" or "gros") whereas the word cochon in the same sense has a more affectionate or childish meaning. Thus, "mon petit cochon" could be translate as "you little dirty one ", using porc instead of cochon is here very unusual or may be viewed as an awkward dirty talking line.

• balancer son porc

• porcher
• pourceau

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

Back-formation from porcogó (“cartilage”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈport͡s]
• Hyphenation: porc
• Rhymes: -ort͡s

porc (plural porcok)

1. gristle
2. (anatomy) cartilage

• porc in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

porc

1. plural of port

• porcu, puorc, puărc

From Latin porcus.

porc m

1. pig

• poarcă
• purcar

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus.

porc m (plural porcs)

1. pig; hog; swine

• French: porc

From Latin porcus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɾk/

porc oblique singular, m (oblique plural pors, nominative singular pors, nominative plural porc)

1. pig; hog; swine
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 180 of this essay:

     il ne doit mengier […] chair de porc

     he must not eat […] pork (literally, the flesh of a pig)

• bacon

• Middle French: porc
  • French: porc
• Norman: por
• → Middle English: pork, porc, porke
  • English: pork
  • Scots: pork, porc, porck

• puerc, puerch

From Latin porcus. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French porc.

porc m (oblique plural porcs, nominative singular porcs, nominative plural porc)

1. pig (mammal)

• Occitan: pòrc

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “porcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 189

Inherited from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

• IPA^(key): /pork/

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porc m (plural porci)

1. pig (mammal of genus Sus), hog, swine
2. pork

• porcărie
• porcesc
• porc mistreț
• porculeț
• porcușor

• poarcă
• porcar
• porcăreață
• purcea
• purcel

• scroafă
• mistreț