Where does “oca” come from?
oca (Italian) comes from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish okka, from Arabic أُوقِيَّة, from Classical Syriac ܐܘܢܩܝܐ, from Ancient Greek οὐγγία, from Latin uncia, from Old French lonce, from Italian lonza — to turn.
oca (Italian): goose; gander; goose, silly goose, airhead
Definitions
- goose; gander; goose, silly goose, airhead
Ancestry of “oca”, step by step
oca traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French oque
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | oque | An oka: any of various units of mass formerly... |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | okka | — |
| 3 | Arabic | أُوقِيَّة | وِقِيَّة |
| 4 | Classical Syriac | ܐܘܢܩܝܐ | — |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | οὐγγία | — |
| 6 | Latin | uncia | The twelfth part of something; twelfth; The... |
| 7 | Old French | lonce | lynx |
| 8 | Italian | lonza | loin of pork; a term used in the Middle Ages to... |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | luncea | — |
| 10 | Latin | lynx | A lynx |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | λύγξ | lynx; hiccup |
| 12 | Latin | canadensis | Canadian |
| 13 | Latin | -ensis | Of or from |
| 14 | Latin | arvum | field; farm land |
| 15 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 16 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 17 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |