Parca

American  

[pahr-kuh] / ˈpɑr kə /

noun

1. an ancient Roman goddess of childbirth and destiny.

2. any one of the Parcae.

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Example Sentences

Mox, Acheronteis quas Parca eduxit ab antris,    Druriacam nubes corripuere domum.

From Verses and Translations by Calverley, Charles Stuart

What fortunate, or what disastrous bird Omen'd my fate? which Parca winds my yarn, That I alone find Pity deaf as asp, And wretched live who happy hoped to be?

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

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

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Innumerable things the little lupa learned at the side of the old woman, bony and ugly as a Parca!

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

Iurado Principe fui; y Rey, y Emperador fuera: mas ay que la Parca fiera, embidia tuvo de mi!

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Bourne, Edward Gaylord