Parcae

American  

[pahr-see, -kahy] / ˈpɑr si, -kaɪ /

plural noun

• Parca
  singular

1. the three Fates of ancient Rome, developed out of the goddess Parca by identification with the Moerae of Greek mythology.

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Parcae British  

/ ˈpɑːsiː /

plural noun

1. Greek counterparts: the Moirai. the Roman goddesses of fate

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Example Sentences

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Parcae Parca

Pluto was perplexed; his confidence in the Parcae was shaken.

From The Infernal Marriage by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

The Parcae were apparently identified with the three “weird” Sisters known in England and in other Teutonic regions, and seem to have some connection with the fairies.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

Thus in the bygone day Peleus' fate foretelling Chaunted from breasts divine prophetic verse the Parcae.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

In M. Auguste Dozon's collection of Albanian stories, there is one called "The sold child," which bears directly on the survival of the Parcae.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

I am sure Sora Serafina, Sora Lodovica, and Sora Adalgisa—the three Parcae or Norns, as I call them—have some such notion.

From Hauntings by Vernon Lee

Perhaps its citizens are to be envied rather than pitied:     "bene est cui deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est, manu."

From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

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 Henry Edward Krehbiel

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

From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

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 Thomas Campbell

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