parc

See also: parç and parć

English

Noun

parc (plural parcs)

1. Alternative form of park (“partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown”)

Anagrams

• -carp, ACPR, APCR, CARP, CRAP, Carp, RCAP, carp, crap, prac

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpark]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpaɾk]
• Rhymes: -aɾk

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan parc, from Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus.

Noun

parc m (plural parcs)

1. park

Derived terms

• aparcar
• parc d'atraccions
• parc infantil

Related terms

• pàrquing

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin parcus.

Adjective

parc (feminine parca, masculine plural parcs, feminine plural parques)

1. frugal, sparing, moderate

   Synonym: moderat

Derived terms

• parquedat

References

• “parc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Further reading

• “parc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “parc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “parc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French parc, from Old French parc, from Early Medieval Latin parricus (“enclosure, fence”), from Frankish *parrik, from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁk/

• Audio:

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Noun

parc m (plural parcs)

1. park
2. playpen (for children)
3. pen (for animals)
4. (total) number; stock (de (“of”))
5. fleet (of vehicles; of similar equipment)

   le parc de véhicules du Québec

   Quebec's vehicle fleet

   Le renouvellement de le parc nucléaire sera un grand défi.

   Renewal of the nuclear fleet will be a big challenge.

Derived terms

• parc aquatique
• parc aux petits
• parc d’attractions
• parc fermé
• parc national
• parc naturel

Descendants

• → Albanian: park
• → Azerbaijani: park
• → Basque: parke
• → Belarusian: парк (park)
• → Bengali: পার্ক (park)
• → Bulgarian: парк (park)
• → Czech: park
• → Danish: park
• → Estonian: park
• → Galician: parque
• → Hebrew: פַּרק (park)
• → Hindi: पार्क (pārk)
• → Hungarian: park
• → Icelandic: park
• → Kazakh: парк (park)
• → Kyrgyz: парк (park)
• → Latvian: parks
• → Lithuanian: parkas
• → Macedonian: парк (park)
• → Maltese: park
• → Maori: pāka
• → Mongolian: парк (park)
• → Norwegian:

  Bokmål: park

  Nynorsk: park

• → Persian: پارک (pârk)
• → Polish: park
• → Portuguese: parque
• → Romanian: parc
• → Russian: парк (park)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: парк

  Latin script: park

• → Slovak: park
• → Slovene: park
• → Swedish: park
• → Spanish: parque
• → Tajik: парк (park)
• → Tamil: பூங்கா (pūṅkā)
• → Turkish: park
• → Turkmen: park
• → Ukrainian: парк (park)
• → Urdu: پارک (pārk)
• → Uzbek: park
• → Yiddish: פּאַרק (park)

Further reading

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

Middle French

Alternative forms

• parque

Etymology

From Old French parc.

Noun

parc m (plural parcs)

1. enclosure (enclosed area)
   • 1600, Olivier de Serres, Bonafous, Balbis, Tissot, Le Theatre d'Agriculture et Mesnage des champs d'Olivier de Serres Seigneur du Pradel, page 322

     compose-on le parc selon l'usage des lieux

     we make up the enclosure depending on the circumstances of the place

Derived terms

• parquet

Descendants

• French: parc (see there for further descendants)

Old French

Alternative forms

• park, parke

Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus (“fence, enclosure”).

Noun

parc oblique singular, m (oblique plural pars, nominative singular pars, nominative plural parc)

1. enclosed area, often fenced off, often in a clearing

Descendants

• Middle French: parc, parque
  • French: parc (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: parc
• → Italian: parco
• → Middle English: park, parc, parck, perke, paric
  • English: park
  • Yola: park

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French parc, from Old French parc, from Early Medieval Latin parricus (“enclosure”), from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, fenced-in area”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

parc n (plural parcuri)

1. park; garden; terrace

Declension

Declension of parc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) parc	parcul	(niște) parcuri	parcurile
genitive/dative	(unui) parc	parcului	(unor) parcuri	parcurilor
vocative	parcule		parcurilor

Derived terms

• parc național
• parc sportiv
• parc zoologic

Related terms

• grădină

Welsh

Etymology

From Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Early Medieval Latin par(ri)cus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /park/
• Rhymes: -ark

Noun

parc m (plural parciau)

1. park

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
parc	barc	mharc	pharc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.