Definitions for loca

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loca lo·ca

Spelling: [loh-kuh]

IPA: /ˈloʊ kə/

Loca is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in loca (aclo).

Definitions for loca

noun

1. a plural of locus.
2. a place; locality.
3. a center or source, as of activities or power:
4. Mathematics. the set of all points, lines, or surfaces that satisfy a given requirement.
5. Genetics. the chromosomal position of a gene as determined by its linear order relative to the other genes on that chromosome.

Origin of loca

1525-35; Latin; OL stlocus a place

Examples for loca

On the Elizabethan stage the front stage is the platea, the inner and upper stages the domus or loca.

Accedunt parallela S. Scriptur loca, necnon vetus capitulorum notatio et canones Eusebii.

On the medieval stage there was a neutral place or platea and special localized and propertied places called sedes, domus, loca.

Reguli interea in loca propinqua thesauris alius alio concessere.

loca sacra etiam ipsa Dei templa monialium stupro et sanguinis et seminis effusione profanare non verentur.

In the urbana auspicia all loca effata must be within the sacred boundary of the pomoerium.