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

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

Si piget, et longam traxisse in taedia pompam Vivax, et nimium Bulla videtur anus: Tolle tuos oculos pensum leve defluet, illam Parca metet facili non operosa manu.155 Vixit adhuc.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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

From Verses and Translations by Calverley, Charles Stuart

It shall be my resolve, lastingly, I hope, to endure until it pleases the implacable Parca: to break the thread.

From Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

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