posca

See also: Posca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin posca.

Noun

posca (uncountable)

1. A drink in Ancient Rome and Greece, made by mixing sour wine or vinegar with water and herbs.

Anagrams

• pacos, copsa, capos, OPACs, SCOPA, Pasco, scopa

Italian

Etymology

From Latin posca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ska/
• Rhymes: -ɔska
• Hyphenation: pò‧sca

Noun

posca f (plural posche)

1. posca

Anagrams

• caspo, pasco, scapo, scopa

Latin

Alternative forms

• pusca

Etymology

From pōtō, formed after ēsca.

Noun

pōsca f (genitive pōscae); first declension

1. an acidulous drink of vinegar and water

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pōsca	pōscae
genitive	pōscae	pōscārum
dative	pōscae	pōscīs
accusative	pōscam	pōscās
ablative	pōscā	pōscīs
vocative	pōsca	pōscae

Descendants

• Aromanian: puscã, pusche
• English: posca
• Italian: posca
• Portuguese: posca
• Spanish: posca

References

• “posca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• posca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• posca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “posca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “posca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Occitan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

posca f (plural poscas)

1. dust

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈposka/ [ˈpos.ka]
• Rhymes: -oska
• Syllabification: pos‧ca

Noun

posca f (uncountable)

1. (Ancient Rome) A mixture of vinegar and water

Further reading

• “posca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28