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baca.

berry, fruit of tree/shrub; olive; pearl; piece/bead of coral;

4 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈbaː.ka]Classical-Latin[ˈbaː.ka]
  1. various small fruit of trees and shrubs: a berry, stone fruit (including olives, cherries)

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  2. an olive fruit in particular, an olive-berry

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  3. a pearl

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  4. a coral bead or piece

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Where this word comes from

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”).

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