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

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

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

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 Gibbs, J. Arthur

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

From Verses and Translations by Calverley, Charles Stuart