coca

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.kə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.kə/
• Rhymes: -əʊkə
• Hyphenation: co‧ca

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

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.

• → Chinese: 古柯 (gǔkē)

• Erythroxylum coca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Erythroxylum coca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Erythroxylum coca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.

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^[2]:

     A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.

• coca (pastry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• caco-

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈko.ka]

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coca f (plural coques)

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

• coca bamba
• coca de llanda
• coca de Montserrat

• → English: coca

Borrowed from Quechua kuka.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈko.ka]

coca f (plural coques)

1. (botany) coca (Erythroxylum coca)
2. (colloquial) coke (cocaine)

   Synonym: cocaïna

• cocaïna

Inherited from Old Catalan coca, from Old French coque, ultimately from Latin caudica (“small ship made of tree trunks”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔ.ka]

coca f (plural coques)

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

• “coca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “coca”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• coca (pastís) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• Category:coques on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.kaː/

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• Hyphenation: co‧ca

coca f (plural coca's, no diminutive)

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

• cocaïne

• coke

• → Indonesian: koka

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ka/

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Apocope of Coca-Cola

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.

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

coca m (plural cocas)

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

• “coca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

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

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

coca f (plural cocas)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

coca f (plural cocas)

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

From a Germanic language (compare English cog).

coca f (plural cocas)

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

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “coca”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “coca”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔkə/^[1]

From English cock (“plumbing valve”), from Middle English cok, from Old English cocc, from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.

coca m (genitive singular coca, nominative plural cocaí)

1. cock (plumbing valve)

From English cock (“small pile of hay or grass”), from Middle English cokke, from Old English *cocc (“heap, pile”), from Proto-West Germanic *kokk, from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“mass, bulge, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve, arch”).

coca m (genitive singular coca, nominative plural cocaí)

1. cock (small pile of hay or grass), haycock

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “coca”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 217; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “coca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ka/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Hyphenation: cò‧ca

Clipping of English Coca-Cola.

coca f (plural coche)

1. Coke (serving of Coca-Cola)

• Coca

Clipping of cocaina (“cocaine”).

coca f (uncountable)

1. coke (“cocaine”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.kɑ/

cōca

1. genitive plural of cōc

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ca

Borrowed from Spanish coca.

coca f (plural cocas)

2. (countable) coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
4. (countable) coca (dried leaf of Erythroxylum coca)
6. (uncountable, slang) coke (cocaine)

Clipping of Coca-Cola.

coca f (plural cocas, diminutive coquinha, augmentative cocão m or cocona)

2. (informal) Coke (cola-based soft drink)

• “coca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “coca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “coca¹”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “coca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French coca, from Spanish, from Quechua.

coca f (uncountable)

1. coca plant

• cocă

-coca

1. to chat, to discuss

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

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

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)

• → English: coca
  • → Chinese: 古柯 (gǔkē)

Clipping of cocaína (“cocaine”).

coca f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) coke, cocaine

   Synonyms: cocaína, perico, farlopa

   Coordinate terms: meta, hierba

Clipping of English Coca-Cola.

coca f (plural cocas)

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

• “coca”, 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

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-coca

1. to chat

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• kocka

From Coca-Cola.

coca c

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

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

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coca

1. Alternative spelling of côca.

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-coca

1. to become clean

This verb needs an inflection-table template.