cepa

From Old Galician-Portuguese cepa, from Latin cippus (“post”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθepa̝/, (western) /ˈsepa̝/

cepa m (plural cepas)

1. stump; also the trunk of a living tree that has suffered many prunings

   Synonyms: carocha, coto, cozo, toco

2. charcoal
3. post, column

   Synonyms: pé, poste

4. trunk of a vine and the vine itself

   Synonym: bacelo

• cepada
• cepeira

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cepa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cepa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cepa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cepa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cepa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

cepa

1. inflection of cepar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

A borrowing from an unknown, possibly Anatolian source, cf. Hesychian Ancient Greek κάπια (kápia, “onions”)^[1] claimed for Ceryneia and the complex of Arabic قُبَّعَة (qubbaʕa, “bulbous hat”). Given the borrowing of Proto-Slavic *lukъ (“onion”), it is probable that the Italians at the date of their expansion also only knew ramsons, as a kind of ālium. At least it is known that spring onion was only introduced in the modern period from China, while the bulb onion is also Asiatic, such that ancient Africa knew the cultivated onion only in the north, by generic names like Egyptian ḥḏw, it having expanded beyond the Great Desert only by the Arabs under their name بَصَل (baṣal).

• caepa, cēpum, caepum, cēpe, caepe

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.pa/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.pa/,

cēpa f (genitive cēpae); first declension

1. onion

First-declension noun.

• ūniō

• caepārius
• cēpōsus
• cēpulla

• “cepa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cepa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cepa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cēpa f (genitive cēpae); first declension

1. Medieval Latin form of sēbum (“grease”)

First-declension noun.

cepa

1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of cept

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.pa/
• Rhymes: -ɛpa
• Syllabification: ce‧pa

cepa m inan

1. genitive singular of cep

• Hyphenation: ce‧pa

cepa f (plural cepas)

1. (microbiology) strain (variant of a virus)
2. kind (a type, race or category)

   Synonyms: tipo, classe, laia, feitio

3. vine (climbing plant that produces grapes)

   Synonyms: vinha, vide, videira

4. stump (remains of a plant that has been cut off), especially one used to make charcoal

cepa

1. adulteress; wanton woman

From cepo.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθepa/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsepa/
• Rhymes: -epa
• Syllabification: ce‧pa

cepa f (plural cepas)

1. (wine) variety
2. (microbiology, virology) strain

   cepa de hongos ― strain of fungi

   cepa de bacteria ― strain of bacteria

   • 2020 December 21, Ferran Bono, Guillermo Vega, Rafa Burgos, ““En Londres la gente pasa de llevar mascarilla en la calle y no parece muy preocupada por la nueva cepa””, in El País‎:

     En eso y en que tampoco parecen de momento muy alarmados los ciudadanos de una de las capitales financieras del mundo por la aparición en su país de una nueva cepa del coronavirus, con mayor poder de contagio.

     Besides this, the citizens of one of the world's largest financial capitals don't seem very concerned with the appearance of a new strain of the coronavirus in their country, one with greater contagious power.

3. rootstalk, rhizome (underground stem base)
4. grapevine stock, grapevine
5. root (of an animal's tail or horns, etc.)
6. ancestry, stock, origin (of family lineage)

   Synonym: linaje

   de buena cepa ― of good stock

7. (architecture) pier (of an arch or bridge)
8. nucleus (of cloud formation)

   Synonym: núcleo

• “cepa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10