Parcae

  

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Parcae

Definition: Parcae

Parcae

Noun

1. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Greek Moirai and similar to the Norse Norns.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Parcae" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Parcae

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Literature

Parcae The Fates. The three were Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. (Latin mythology.) Parcae is from pars, a lot; and the corresponding Moirae is from meros, a lot. The Fates were so called because they decided the lot of every man. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Parcae

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Necessity

Star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Parcae

English words defined with "Parcae": Moirae, MoiraiNorn. (references)

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Modern Translations: Parcae

Language Translations for "Parcae"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

парки. (various references)

   

French

  

parque. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arcaepay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

parcas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Parcae

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-p-r"

-1 letter: apace, areca, caper, crape, pacer, parae, recap.

-2 letters: acre, aper, area, cape, care, carp, crap, paca, pace, para, pare, pear, race, rape, reap.

-3 letters: ace, ape, arc, are, cap, car, cep, ear, era, pac, par, pea, pec, per, rap, rec, rep.

-4 letters: aa, ae, ar, er, pa, pe, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-p-r"
 

+1 letter: carpale, precava.

 

+2 letters: airscape, airspace, capabler, capmaker, carapace, catnaper, coappear, packager, pancreas, parlance, placater, precavae, precaval.

 

+3 letters: acropetal, aerospace, afterclap, airscapes, airspaces, applecart, capmakers, carapaces, carapaxes, carpetbag, catnapers, catnapper, coappears, epicardia, marchpane, mercaptan, metacarpi, pacemaker, packagers, paperback, parachute, paramecia, paramedic, parcenary, parlances, placarded, placaters, repackage, scrapheap, scrappage, spaceward.

 

+4 letters: aerospaces, afterclaps, alphameric, altarpiece, amphimacer, aphaeretic, apocarpies, apothecary, appearance, applecarts, appreciate, approached, approaches, archetypal, aspherical, backpacker, camelopard, campaigner, campestral, camphorate, cardplayer, carpellary, carpellate, carpetbags, catnappers, chaparejos, coappeared, comparable, crawlspace, epicardial, landscaper, macrophage, marchpanes, mascarpone, megaparsec, mercaptans, metacarpal, metacarpus, pacemakers, packthread, paediatric, pancreases, pancreatic, pancreatin, paperbacks, parachuted, parachutes, paramecium, paramedics, parametric, paraplegic, parenchyma, patriciate, peacemaker, pericardia, pericrania, pharmacies, prepackage, proctodaea, radarscope, rampancies, rapacities, recappable, repackaged, repackager, repackages, scapegrace, scrapheaps, scrappages, spacecraft, waterscape.

 

+5 letters: absorptance, acropetally, altarpieces, amphimacers, appearances, appreciable, appreciably, appreciated, appreciates, appreciator, archesporia, archipelago, backpackers, backslapper, camelopards, campaigners, camphorated, camphorates, caparisoned, capillaries, cardplayers, cardsharper, catastrophe, catchphrase, caterpillar, ceratopsian, chaperonage, clapboarded, clapperclaw, coappearing, comparative, coparcenary, crawlspaces, decapitator, emancipator, handicapper, hypercapnia, landscapers, laparoscope, macrophages, malpractice, marketplace, mascarpones, megaparsecs, metacarpals, overpackage, packthreads, paediatrics, pancreatins, panegyrical, paperbacked, paragenetic, parameciums, paramedical, paraplegics, parcenaries, parenchymal, parenchymas, parfocalize, participate, particulate, patriciates, peacemakers, pericardial, pericranial, practicable, preheadache, prepackaged, prepackages, prevaricate, purchasable, radarscopes, relandscape, repackagers, repackaging, replaceable, scapegraces, spacecrafts, spacewalker, spectacular, spermatheca, waterscapes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Parcae


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 72 63 61 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110010 01100011 01100001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#114 &#99 &#97 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0072 0063 0061 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

506784696771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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