# porc
## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* porcu

### Etymology

From Latin porcus. Compare Romanian porc.

### Noun

porc m (plural ports)
* pig

#### Related terms

* porche
* purtsel, purtsiau
* purcar

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan porc, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpɔrk]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpɔɾk]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

porc m (plural porcs)
* pig, swine
* pork
    Synonym: carn de porc

#### Derived terms

* porc senglar

#### Related terms

* porcell
* porquer
* porquerol

### References

* “porc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “porc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “porc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “porc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French porc, from Old French porc, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophones: porcs, port, ports

### Noun

porc m (plural porcs)
* pork
* pig
    Synonym: cochon
* (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) dirty pig, swine, contemptible person
    sale porc!

#### Usage notes

* Used as an insult, the word porc is rather harsh or even dirty (especially with epithets such as "sale" or "gros") whereas the word cochon in the same sense has a more affectionate or childish meaning. Thus, "mon petit cochon" could be translate as "you little dirty one ", using porc instead of cochon is here very unusual or may be viewed as an awkward dirty talking line.

#### Derived terms

* balancer son porc

#### Related terms

* porcher
* pourceau

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Back-formation from porcogó (“cartilage”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈport͡s]
* Hyphenation: porc
* Rhymes: -ort͡s

### Noun

porc (plural porcok)
* gristle
* (anatomy) cartilage

#### Derived terms

* porcos
* gyűrűporc
* kannaporc
* pajzsporc
* porckorong → porckorongsérv
* porcleválás
* porcszövet

### References

* ↑ porc in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* porc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Ladin
### Noun

porc
* plural of port

## Megleno-Romanian
### Alternative forms

* porcu, puorc, puărc

### Etymology

From Latin porcus.

### Noun

porc m
* pig

#### Related terms

* poarcă
* purcar

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French porc, from Latin porcus.

### Noun

porc m (plural porcs)
* pig; hog; swine

#### Descendants

* French: porc

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin porcus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔɾk/

### Noun

porc oblique singular, m (oblique plural pors, nominative singular pors, nominative plural porc)
* pig; hog; swine
** 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 180 of this essay:il ne doit mengier […] chair de porche must not eat […] pork (literally, the flesh of a pig)

#### Synonyms

* bacon

#### Descendants

* Middle French: porc
** French: porc
* Norman: por
* → Middle English: pork, porc, porke
** English: pork
** Scots: pork, porc, porck

## Old Occitan
### Alternative forms

* puerc, puerch

### Etymology

From Latin porcus. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French porc.

### Noun

porc m (oblique plural porcs, nominative singular porcs, nominative plural porc)
* pig (mammal)

#### Descendants

* Occitan: pòrc

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “porcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 189

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pork/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

porc m (plural porci)
* pig (mammal of genus Sus), hog, swine
* pork

#### Derived terms

* porcărie
* porcesc
* porc mistreț
* porculeț
* porcușor
* îngrășa porcul în ajun

#### Related terms

* poarcă
* porcar
* porcăreață
* purcea
* purcel

#### See also

* scroafă
* mistreț