occa

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Related to acuō (“sharpen, whet”), aciēs (“edge”) and acus (“needle”) and German Egge (“harrow”).

Noun

occa f (genitive occae); first declension

1. harrow

   Synonym: hirpex

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	occa	occae
genitive	occae	occārum
dative	occae	occīs
accusative	occam	occās
ablative	occā	occīs
vocative	occa	occae

Derived terms

• occō

Etymology 2

Verb

occā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of occō

References

• “occa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• occa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• occa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.