The corpus record — Latin

barca

barca · f

a small boat

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What it meant

1. barca — Lewis & Short

barca, ae, f.,

I a small boat, a bark, barge (post-class.): barca est, quae cuncta navis commercia ad litus portat. Hanc navis in pelago propter nimias undas suo suscipit gremio, etc., Isid. Orig. 19, 1, 19; Paul. Nol. Carm. 21, 95.

2. barca — Walde–Hofmann

barca, -ae f. „Barke* (aus *bärica; seit Paul. Nol, rom.), baris, -idos f. ,Nachen* (Prop.): durch gr. B&piz aus kopt. barı ds. Nrokorsch n. 2m) Aus dem Roman. stammt nhd. Barke, s. Bücheler RhM. 42, 583£., Falk WuS. 4, 87, Kluge Arch. Rom. 6, 231 £., Sofer Isid. 175. barcala s. bargena. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. barca, p. 128]

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.