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coca

See also: Coca, COCA, cóca, còca, cocã, cocă, coça, and côca

English

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Etymology 1

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The leaves and fruit of a coca plant.

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

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coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

  1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.
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  • → Chinese: 古柯 (gǔkē)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.

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coca (plural cocas)

  1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
    • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.

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Catalan

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coca de Sant Joan

Borrowed from Old Dutch coca, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, related to English cake.

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coca f (plural coques)

  1. (cooking) coca (pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas)
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Borrowed from Quechua kuka.

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coca f (plural coques)

  1. (botany) coca (Erythroxylum coca)
  2. (colloquial) coke (cocaine)
    Synonym: cocaïna
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Inherited from Old Catalan coca, from Old French coque, ultimately from Latin caudica (“small ship made of tree trunks”).

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coca f (plural coques)

  1. (nautical, historical) cog (type of sailing ship)

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Dutch

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Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkoː.kaː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: co‧ca

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coca f (plural coca's)

  1. coca, plant of the family Erythroxylaceae
  2. (uncountable) coca, consumable leaves of these plants

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  • → Indonesian: koka

French

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Etymology 1

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Apocope of Coca-Cola

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coca m (plural cocas)

  1. Coke (serving of Coca-Cola)
  2. cola; (serving of any cola drink)
    • 2019 January 17, Amélie Petitdemange, “Dry January, Lundi Vert… des Millennials de plus en plus healthy ?”, in Les Echos:
      “Quand tu commandes un coca dans un bar, t’as l’air bizarre”, abonde Camille, étudiante en journalisme.
      "When you order a Coke in a bar, you look weird," agrees Camille, a journalism student.

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Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

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coca m (plural cocas)

  1. coca (plant)
  2. (informal) cocaine

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Galician

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Coca parade, Redondela, Galicia

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From cocatriz, probably from Old French cocatriz, from Latin calcātrīx.

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coca m (plural cocas)

  1. (mythology, folklore) cockatrice, in Galician folklore a water creature
    Synonym: cocatriz
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:
      de baleas, de cocas, de orças et de todoslos outros pescados quea ẽnas agoas
      of whales, of cockatrices, of orcas and of all the other fishes that are in the waters
    • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:
      que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa
      they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous

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Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

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coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (plant)
  2. (informal, drugs) cocaine

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coca f (plural cocas)

  1. Alternative form of coco
  2. claw (pincer of a crustacean)

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From a Germanic language (compare English cog).

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coca f (plural cocas)

  1. (historical) cog (a clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged, single-masted mediaeval ship of burden)

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Old English

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cōca

  1. genitive plural of cōc

Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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  • Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
  • Hyphenation: co‧ca

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish coca.

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coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
  2. coca (dried leaf of Erythroxylon coca)

Etymology 2

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Ellipsis of Coca-Cola.

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coca f (plural cocas)

  1. Coke

Etymology 3

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Clipping of cocaína.

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coca f (uncountable)

  1. (slang) coke (cocaine)

Romanian

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Borrowed from French coca, from Spanish, from Quechua.

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coca f (uncountable)

  1. coca plant

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Southern Ndebele

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Verb

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-coca

  1. to chat, to discuss

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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkoka/ [ˈko.ka]
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Syllabification: co‧ca

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Quechua koka or Aymara kuka (“coca”).

Noun

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coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America)
  2. coca (the dried leaf of one of these plants)
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of cocaína (“cocaine”).

Noun

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coca f (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) coke, cocaine
    Synonyms: cocaína, perico, farlopa
    Coordinate terms: meta, hierba

Etymology 3

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Clipping of English Coca-Cola.

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coca f (plural cocas)

  1. Coke (Coca-Cola, a trademarked soft drink)

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Swazi

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

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-coca

  1. to chat

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Etymology

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From Coca-Cola.

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coca c

  1. (slang, Scania, countable, uncountable) coke (cola-based soft drink)

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Pronounced with /ɔ/ instead of /u/, as expected from the alternative form.

Declension

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Declension of coca
nominative genitive
singular indefinite coca cocas
definite cocan cocans
plural indefinite cocor cocors
definite cocorna cocornas

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Vietnamese

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coca

  1. Alternative spelling of côca.

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Verb

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-coca

  1. to become clean

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