Definition of Parcae

1. Noun. Any of the three Roman goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Greek Moirai and similar to the Norse Norns.

Generic synonyms: Roman Deity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parcae

Paranthias furcifer
Paranthropus
Paraná
Parascalops
Parascalops breweri
Parascaris equorum
Parashurama
Parasitaxus
Parasitaxus ustus
Parastrongylus
Parathelypteris
Parathelypteris novae-boracensis
Parathelypteris simulata
Parazoa
Paraíba
Parcae
Parcheesi
Pardew
Pare's suture
Paree
Pareto
Pareto-efficient
Pareto-improvement
Pareto-improvements
Pareto-optimal
Pareto distribution
Pareto efficient
Pareto improvement
Pareto improvements

Literary usage of Parcae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Study of the Sepulchral Inscriptions in Buecheler's "Carmina Epigraphica by Judson Allen Tolman (1910)
"The figure of the parcae spinning and cutting the thread and thus determining ... Similar allusions to .the thread of the parcae appear in Inscriptions 587. ..."

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