forca

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan forca), from Latin furca (compare French fourche, Spanish horca).

forca f (plural forques)

1. fork, pitchfork (for gardening)
2. gallows

• forquilla

• “forca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• furca

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese forca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin furca (“pitchfork”). Cognate with Portuguese forca and Spanish horca).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾka̝/

forca f (plural forcas)

1. pole
   • 1339. M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500), page 127:

     que a deuedes dar chantada de vina et ben fercada et [. . ] con forcas et linoos ao pelongo et latas ao traues

     you should plant vines and have it correctly kept [...] with gallows and strings all along, and beams crosswise

2. gallows pole
3. pitchfork

   Synonym: forcada

4. defile, ravine

• “forca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “forca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “forca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “forca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “forca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin furca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfor.ka/
• Hyphenation: fór‧ca

forca f (plural forche)

1. fork (instrument used in agriculture and gardening)
2. pitchfork
3. gallows, hanging tree

• forcella

• cafro

From Old Portuguese forca, from Latin furca.

forca f (plural forcas)

1. gallows (wooden framework on which persons are put to death by hanging)

Borrowed from Italian forza, from Late Latin fortia, ultimately from Latin fortis.

fȏrca f (Cyrillic spelling фо̑рца)

1. (regional) force
2. (regional) strength

• snága