baca

(Anglès)

1. (declension-1) various small fruit of trees and shrubs: a berry, stone fruit (including olives, cherries)
2. (declension-1) an olive fruit in particular, an olive-berry
3. (declension-1) a pearl
4. (declension-1) a coral bead or piece

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

[ˈbaː.ka]

Etimologia (Anglès)

Unknown. Possibly:
* If from Proto-Indo-European, it may be connected to Lithuanian bapkas (“berry, laurel”), which renders a sound-symbolic root *bab- (“to be round; small fruit”), evolving into *bab-ca and finally bā̆(c)ca (with compensatory lengthening or gemination). This etymology suffers from phonological problems as well as the paucity of cognates, but for the alternation compare the pairs cippus : cīpus and littera : lītera.
* Somehow related to Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos, “Bacchus; twig used as a symbol of Bacchus?”), which cannot be inherited and may be Pre-Greek or Anatolian in origin.
* More likely, from a local substrate source perhaps shared with Proto-Berber *bqā (“blackberry, mulberry, shrub berry”).

Conceptes

baia

perla

badia

Sinònims

margarita

acinus