toca

toca

1. third-person singular present indicative of tocar
2. second-person singular imperative of tocar

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

toca

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːka/
• Rhymes: -aci

tōca

1. (transitive) to bury, to plant something

toca

1. name

toca

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

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
• Hyphenation: to‧ca

Uncertain, with multiple theories:

• from Paleo-Hispanic;^[1]
• from Spanish tueca.^[2]

toca f (plural tocas)

1. den, burrow

   Synonyms: covil, furna, lura

   • 1919, Monteiro Lobato, Jeca Tatú: Vida e costumes‎^[1], page 8:

     Sua casa de sapé e lama faz rir aos bichos que moram em toca e gargalhar ao joão de barro.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (figurative) refuge, hiding place
3. (figurative, colloquial) bedroom

Deverbal from tocar (“to touch”).

toca m (uncountable)

1. (Ceará) tag (children's chasing game)

   Synonym: pega-pega

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

toca

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

• “toca”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “toca”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “toca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “toca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “toca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• acto-, cato, cota, taco-, taco, octã, octa-

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *toccāre or *tuccāre (“to knock, strike, offend”), possibly of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin. Compare French toucher, toquer, Italian toccare, Portuguese tocar, Spanish tocar. Alternatively possibly from Italian toccare.

a toca (third-person singular present toacă, past participle tocat, third-person subjunctive toace) 1st conjugation

1. to chop, mince, hack
2. to hit, knock, bang against something (such as with a hammer)
3. to bother, pester, nag

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoka/ [ˈt̪o.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: to‧ca

Borrowed from Italian toca, tocca (“veil, silkcloth”), from Lombard toh (“headscarf”), from Lombardic *tuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk (“cloth”). Compare French toque, of similar origin.

toca f (plural tocas)

1. kerchief, turban cloth (so to say)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

toca

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

• “toca”, 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈto.t͡ʃa]

toca

1. wax
2. a candle

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh