"Parca" meaning in Latin

See Parca in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Etymology: Suggestions include: * parcō (“I spare”) * pariō (“I give birth”) * plicō, plectō (“I plait”) Etymology templates: {{m|la|parcō||I spare}} parcō (“I spare”), {{m|la|pariō||I give birth}} pariō (“I give birth”), {{m|la|plicō}} plicō, {{m|la|plectō||I plait}} plectō (“I plait”) Head templates: {{la-proper noun|Parca<1.both>}} Parca f (genitive Parcae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|Parca<1.both>}} Forms: Parcae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Parca [nominative, singular], Parcae [nominative, plural], Parcae [genitive, singular], Parcārum [genitive, plural], Parcae [dative, singular], Parcīs [dative, plural], Parcam [accusative, singular], Parcās [accusative, plural], Parcā [ablative, singular], Parcīs [ablative, plural], Parca [singular, vocative], Parcae [plural, vocative]
  1. one of the Fates (one of the three goddesses who control destiny) Tags: declension-1, feminine Categories (topical): Religion

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Parca meaning in Latin (3.6kB)

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        {
          "english": "Because these people, wide-ruling and proud in war,\nwould come to destroy Libya: The Fates [were] thus to spin.\n(Rome would defeat Carthage in Libya; the Fates spun, measured and cut the metaphorical threads of life. See: Parcae. Notes: regem is an abbreviation of present active participle regentem or regnantem, “ruling”; bello is an ablative of respect, “in respect to war”; excidio is a dative of purpose, “for the destruction.” The grammar and idiom of sic volvere Parcas is variously interpreted, e.g.: “thus the Fates were spinning,” “the Fates had so decreed.”)",
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          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.21–22",
          "roman": "ventūrum excidiō Libyae: sīc volvere Parcās.",
          "text": "hinc populum, lātē rēgem bellōque superbum,"
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