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Definition: Parcae |
ParcaeNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Parcae |
| English words defined with "Parcae": Moirae, Moirai ♦ Norn. (references) |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 63 61 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. -.-. .- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01100011 01100001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r c a e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506784696771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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