"amurca" meaning in Latin

See amurca in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀμόργη (amórgē), possibly via Etruscan. Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|ἀμόργη}} Ancient Greek ἀμόργη (amórgē), {{bor|la|ett|-}} Etruscan, {{dercat|la|phn}} Head templates: {{la-noun|amurca<1>}} amurca f (genitive amurcae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|amurca<1>}} Forms: amurcae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], amurca [nominative, singular], amurcae [nominative, plural], amurcae [genitive, singular], amurcārum [genitive, plural], amurcae [dative, singular], amurcīs [dative, plural], amurcam [accusative, singular], amurcās [accusative, plural], amurcā [ablative, singular], amurcīs [ablative, plural], amurca [singular, vocative], amurcae [plural, vocative]
  1. amurca: the watery part that flows out in pressing olives, the lees or dregs of oil Tags: declension-1, feminine Derived forms: amurcārius

Inflected forms

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      "lang_code": "an",
      "word": "morca"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "muerga"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
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    },
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      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "morca"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
      "lang_code": "gl",
      "word": "morca"
    },
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          "lang_code": "sl",
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          ],
          "word": "murga"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Dalmatian",
      "lang_code": "dlm",
      "word": "muarka"
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      "lang_code": "en",
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        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "amurca"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "morchia"
    },
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      "lang_code": "pt",
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      ],
      "word": "amurca"
    },
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    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "murga"
    },
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      "lang_code": "es",
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      ],
      "word": "amurca"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "lang_code": "sc",
      "word": "murga"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "mùriga"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "roman": "amúrka",
      "word": "аму́рка"
    },
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      "lang_code": "vec",
      "word": "morga"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek ἀμόργη (amórgē), possibly via Etruscan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "amurcae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
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        "table-tags"
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    },
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      ]
    },
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      "form": "amurca",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "amurcae",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
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        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "amurcārum",
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          "amurcārum",
          "amurcarum#Latin"
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        ]
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "amurcās",
      "links": [
        [
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          "amurcas#Latin"
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        "plural"
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      "form": "amurcā",
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        "singular"
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "amurca",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "amurcae",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        },
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        }
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        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: fracēs"
        },
        {
          "english": "I likewise saw many steep seeds as they were sowing and, beforehand, treat them with alkalis and the dregs of black olive-oil, that bigger fruits may grow inside the deceitful pod, and they quickly boil to however small a fire.",
          "ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 1.193–196",
          "roman": "Et quamvis igni exiguo properata maderent.",
          "text": "Semina vidi equidem multos medicare serentes\nEt nitro prius et nigra perfundere amurca,\nGrandior ut fetus siliquis fallacibus esset",
          "translation": "I likewise saw many steep seeds as they were sowing and, beforehand, treat them with alkalis and the dregs of black olive-oil, that bigger fruits may grow inside the deceitful pod, and they quickly boil to however small a fire.",
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        },
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              30,
              36
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            [
              41,
              47
            ]
          ],
          "english": "There are those who mix potter clay with amurca and hold it to be daubed on quinces when they are set up in a dry and cold stead.",
          "ref": "200s CE, Quintus Gargilius Martialis, 1. 1. ed. Angelo Mai Operis deperditi de hortis Fragmenta ex codicibus Neapolitano et Romano cum scholiis palaeographicis et adnotationibus, Rome, 1846 p. 58, in De arboribus pomiferis:",
          "text": "Sunt qui figularem cretam cum amurca subigunt, soleque siccatis cydoneis inliniri existimant, si in loco sicco et frigido reponantur.",
          "translation": "There are those who mix potter clay with amurca and hold it to be daubed on quinces when they are set up in a dry and cold stead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "amurca: the watery part that flows out in pressing olives, the lees or dregs of oil"
      ],
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        [
          "amurca",
          "amurca#English"
        ],
        [
          "olives",
          "olives"
        ],
        [
          "lees",
          "lees"
        ],
        [
          "dregs",
          "dregs"
        ],
        [
          "oil",
          "oil"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
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  ],
  "word": "amurca"
}
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    }
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      "lang_code": "an",
      "word": "morca"
    },
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      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "muerga"
    },
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      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "word": "morga"
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      "lang": "Catalan",
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      "word": "morca"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Galician",
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      "word": "morca"
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      "lang": "Italian",
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      "word": "amurca"
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      "word": "mùriga"
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      ],
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          "english": "I likewise saw many steep seeds as they were sowing and, beforehand, treat them with alkalis and the dregs of black olive-oil, that bigger fruits may grow inside the deceitful pod, and they quickly boil to however small a fire.",
          "ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 1.193–196",
          "roman": "Et quamvis igni exiguo properata maderent.",
          "text": "Semina vidi equidem multos medicare serentes\nEt nitro prius et nigra perfundere amurca,\nGrandior ut fetus siliquis fallacibus esset",
          "translation": "I likewise saw many steep seeds as they were sowing and, beforehand, treat them with alkalis and the dregs of black olive-oil, that bigger fruits may grow inside the deceitful pod, and they quickly boil to however small a fire.",
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          "english": "There are those who mix potter clay with amurca and hold it to be daubed on quinces when they are set up in a dry and cold stead.",
          "ref": "200s CE, Quintus Gargilius Martialis, 1. 1. ed. Angelo Mai Operis deperditi de hortis Fragmenta ex codicibus Neapolitano et Romano cum scholiis palaeographicis et adnotationibus, Rome, 1846 p. 58, in De arboribus pomiferis:",
          "text": "Sunt qui figularem cretam cum amurca subigunt, soleque siccatis cydoneis inliniri existimant, si in loco sicco et frigido reponantur.",
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  "word": "amurca"
}

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.