auca

auca (plural aucas)

1. A traditional form of art from Catalonia, consisting of a comic-like series of images with text captions, often rhyming couplets.

• auga

From avis (“bird”) +‎ -ica (relational suffix), with regular syncope of short /i/. Compare Latin auceps < *awikaps or aucella < avicella.

Attested in Avienius and late glosses.^[1]

auca f (genitive aucae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. goose

   Synonym: ānser

First-declension noun.

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “auca”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 69

• “auca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• aucha (Auvergne, Limousin)

Inherited from Old Occitan auca, from Late Latin auca, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Catalan oca, French oie, Franco-Provençal oye, Spanish oca, Italian oca, Romansh auca, ocha.

• IPA^(key): [ˈawko]

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auca f (plural aucas)

1. goose

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 37
• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 129

• oca (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• ocha (Puter, Vallader)

Inherited from Late Latin auca, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Friulian ocje, Italian and Venetan oca, Dalmatian jauca, Occitan auca, Catalan oca, French oie.

auca f (plural aucas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) goose

auca f (plural aucas)

1. auca
2. pond water-crowfoot

• “auca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025