forca

From Latin furca (compare Occitan forca, French fourche, Spanish horca).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾ.kə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfor.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfoɾ.ka/

forca f (plural forques)

1. fork, pitchfork (for gardening)
2. gallows

• a la quinta forca
• forcadura
• forcall
• forcar
• forcó
• forqueta
• forquilla

• “forca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “forca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “forca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “forca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• furca

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese forca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin furca (“pitchfork”). Cognate with Portuguese forca and Spanish horca).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾka̝/

forca f (plural forcas)

1. pole
   • 1339. M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 127:

     que a deuedes dar chantada de vina et ben fercada et [. . ] con forcas et linoos ao pelongo et latas ao traues

     you should plant vines and have it correctly kept [...] with gallows and strings all along, and beams crosswise

2. gallows pole
3. pitchfork

   Synonym: forcada

4. defile, ravine

• enforcar

• “forca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “forca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “forca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “forca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “forca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin furca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.ka/
• Rhymes: -orka
• Hyphenation: fór‧ca

forca f (plural forche)

1. fork (instrument used in agriculture and gardening)
2. pitchfork
3. gallows, hanging tree

• forcella

• cafro

From Proto-West Germanic *furkō, from Latin furca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.kɑ/, [ˈforˠ.kɑ]

forca m

1. fork

• forcel

• Middle English: forke
  • English: fork

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “forca”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Old Portuguese forca, from Latin furca.

forca f (plural forcas)

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork”). Doublet of forc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔrˠxkə/

forca f (genitive singular fuirce, plural forcan)

1. fork

   Synonyms: greimire, forc

Borrowed from Italian forza, from Late Latin fortia, ultimately from Latin fortis.

• IPA^(key): /fôːrt͡sa/
• Hyphenation: for‧ca

fȏrca f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рца)

1. (regional) force
2. (regional) strength

• (force): sila
• (strength): snaga