auca

auca (plural aucas)

1. A traditional form of art from Catalonia, consisting of a comic-like series of images with text captions, often rhyming couplets.

• occa (Medieval, marking lack of voicing after former /u̯/)

avis (“bird”) +‎ -ica (“relative suffix”) with regular syncope. Compare Latin auceps, avicella, aucella.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ka/, [ˈäu̯kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯.ka/, [ˈäːu̯kä]

auca f (genitive aucae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) goose

   Synonym: ānser

First-declension noun.

• auca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• aucha (Auvergne, Limousin)

Inherited from Old Occitan auca, from Late Latin auca, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Catalan oca, French oie, Franco-Provençal oye, Spanish oca, Italian oca, Romansh auca, ocha.

• IPA^(key): [ˈawko]

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auca f (plural aucas)

1. goose

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 37.
• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 129.

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) oca
• (Puter, Vallader) ocha

Inherited from Late Latin auca, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Friulian ocje, Italian and Venetian oca, Dalmatian jauca, Occitan auca, Catalan oca, French oie.

auca f (plural aucas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) goose