roca

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈrɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈrɔ.ka]

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roca f (plural roques)

1. rock

• pedra

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

Perhaps from Gothic *𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌺𐌰 (*rukka); or, given its open stressed vowel, rather from a West Germanic cognate of it (compare Old High German rocko),^[1] from Proto-Germanic *rukkô. Cognate with Portuguese roca and Spanish rueca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔka̝/

roca f (plural rocas)

1. spinning distaff (part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun)

   Synonyms: galleta, ruxideira

   En cada terra seu uso, en cada roca seu fuso.

   In every country its customs, for every distaff its spindle.

   (proverb)

   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Polo fio d'unha roca
     ó estagamo seme bay,
     é cortafeira coideiche
     que acababa de finar.

     By the thread of a distaff
     my stomach is going away,
     and Wednesday I though
     that I had just died.

   • 1889, Xulio Alonso Sánchez, O Chufón:

     Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.

     The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax on the distaff, for the year's cloth.

• rocazo
• rocanzo
• roqueiro
• rocón
• recó

From Old Galician-Portuguese roca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria) borrowed from Old Catalan roca, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of unknown origin. Doublet of rocha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔka/

roca f (plural rocas)

1. rock

   Synonyms: pena, penedo, rocha

• rocha

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “roca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “roca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “roca”, 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), “roca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “roca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

roca

1. present subjunctive analytic of roc

roca

1. feminine singular of roco

• acro, acro-, arco, arcò, caro, ocra, orca

roca

1. second-person singular imperative active of rocati

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rukkô, although the intermediate language is uncertain. Possibly Gothic *𐍂𐌿𐌺𐌺𐌰 (*rukka), however, the vowel quality in Iberian Romance (/ɔ/ in Portuguese, /we/ in Spanish) points to a possible West Germanic loanword,^[1] or to the influence of Latin rota (“wheel”).^[2] Cognate to Galician roca, Spanish rueca, Italian rocca, Old High German rocko (German Rocken).^[3]

roca f (plural rocas)

1. (spinning) distaff (part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun)

• rocca (obsolete)

From Old Galician-Portuguese roca, from Old Catalan roca, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin. Doublet of rocha.

roca f (plural rocas)

1. seacliff (cliff by the sea)
2. a stony cliff

   Synonyms: rochedo, penhasco

3. (archaic) a large rock; a boulder

   Synonyms: rocha, penedo

• rocha

roca

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈroka/ [ˈro.ka]

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: ro‧ca

Borrowed from Catalan roca, from Early Medieval Latin rocca, of uncertain origin.

roca f (plural rocas)

1. rock

   Synonyms: peña, piedra

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

roca

1. feminine singular of roco

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