Parca

[pahr-kuh]

noun

1. an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny.

2. any one of the Parcae.

Example Sentences

The new Constitution would shrink slightly to 373,274 words, but that is three times more words than the next-longest state constitution – Texas, according to an analysis from the PARCA.

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Sales of her rhinoceros mugs help support PARCA, a rhino advocacy organization.

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The cult’s origin, according to Chesnut, dates at least to the 18th century when the Catholic Church used the image of La Parca — a Spanish female Grim Reaper — to evangelize Mexico’s indigenous people more than a century after the conquest of the Aztec empire by Hernán Cortés.

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Parca superstitio; non thurea flamma, nec altus Accipitur sanguis, lachrymis altaria sudant ...

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The Fates, or Parcæ, who spin, twist, and cut the thread of life, 165.

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