pacan.

Brit.

/ˈpɑːkə/,

/ˈpakə/, U.S.

/ˈpɑkə/,

/ˈpækə/

Origin: A borrowing from Tupi. Etymon: Tupi paca.

Etymology: Ultimately < Tupi paca, paka. The immediate language (or languages) of borrowing into English is unclear: compare Portuguese paca (a1576), Spanish paca (1601), French paca (1622; 1603 in an isolated attestation in a text translated from Latin; also 1614 as †pac), post-classical Latin paca (1589 or earlier).Compare the following earlier isolated attestation of the forms pag , pague in the same sense, both < Middle French pag , pague (1578 in the passage translated in quot. 1625), themselves probably a loan (perhaps via Portuguese pagua (1587 or earlier)) of Guarani paig:1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes 1326 Pag, or Pague (for after what manner they pronounce it, you can scarce, or not at all understand) is a wilde beast of the indifferent height of an Hound.

Either of two large nocturnal rodents related to the agoutis, having dark brown fur with rows of whitish spots along the sides, and constituting the genus Cuniculus, native to Central and South America and widely hunted for food; esp. C. paca (formerly also called spotted cavy or water hare).The pacas are sometimes regarded as a subfamily of the agouti family Dasyproctidae, and sometimes placed in a distinct family Agoutidae. Despite the Latin genus name, the paca is not usually called ‘agouti’ in English.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Dasyproctidae (agouti)

agouti1568

paca1657

labba1769

acouchi1780

accouri1824

Patagonian hare1839

1657 S. Clarke Geogr. Descr. All Countries 179 Their Pacas are like Pigs, their flesh is pleasant.

1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. xvi. 299 The Paca, from the end of the nose to the root of the tail, is about a foot long, with a large head four inches long from the nostrils to the hinder part.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxii. 152 The Paca, or Spotted Cavey, called in Surinam the Aquatic Hare.

1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Sept. 517 When pacas and otters are in question, an Indian will do anything to kill them.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 27 Dec. 10/2 Eastward of the Andes the ‘Paca’, as it is called, has a wide range in South America.

1954 G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure vii. 169 Then there were pacas, plump as young pigs, chocolate-coloured beasts decorated with longitudinal lines of cream-coloured blotches.

1986 New Yorker 24 Mar. 103/2 The hunters returned, each with a paca—a large brown nocturnal rodent.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	paca
释义	pacan. Brit. /ˈpɑːkə/, /ˈpakə/, U.S. /ˈpɑkə/, /ˈpækə/ Origin: A borrowing from Tupi. Etymon: Tupi paca. Etymology: Ultimately < Tupi paca, paka. The immediate language (or languages) of borrowing into English is unclear: compare Portuguese paca (a1576), Spanish paca (1601), French paca (1622; 1603 in an isolated attestation in a text translated from Latin; also 1614 as †pac), post-classical Latin paca (1589 or earlier).Compare the following earlier isolated attestation of the forms pag , pague in the same sense, both < Middle French pag , pague (1578 in the passage translated in quot. 1625), themselves probably a loan (perhaps via Portuguese pagua (1587 or earlier)) of Guarani paig:1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes 1326 Pag, or Pague (for after what manner they pronounce it, you can scarce, or not at all understand) is a wilde beast of the indifferent height of an Hound. Either of two large nocturnal rodents related to the agoutis, having dark brown fur with rows of whitish spots along the sides, and constituting the genus Cuniculus, native to Central and South America and widely hunted for food; esp. C. paca (formerly also called spotted cavy or water hare).The pacas are sometimes regarded as a subfamily of the agouti family Dasyproctidae, and sometimes placed in a distinct family Agoutidae. Despite the Latin genus name, the paca is not usually called ‘agouti’ in English. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > family Dasyproctidae (agouti) agouti1568 paca1657 labba1769 acouchi1780 accouri1824 Patagonian hare1839 1657 S. Clarke Geogr. Descr. All Countries 179 Their Pacas are like Pigs, their flesh is pleasant. 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. I. xvi. 299 The Paca, from the end of the nose to the root of the tail, is about a foot long, with a large head four inches long from the nostrils to the hinder part. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxii. 152 The Paca, or Spotted Cavey, called in Surinam the Aquatic Hare. 1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Sept. 517 When pacas and otters are in question, an Indian will do anything to kill them. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 27 Dec. 10/2 Eastward of the Andes the ‘Paca’, as it is called, has a wide range in South America. 1954 G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure vii. 169 Then there were pacas, plump as young pigs, chocolate-coloured beasts decorated with longitudinal lines of cream-coloured blotches. 1986 New Yorker 24 Mar. 103/2 The hunters returned, each with a paca—a large brown nocturnal rodent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1657
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