chacina

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Galician

Chacina ("jerky")

Alternative forms

Etymology

15th century. Probably from Vulgar Latin *siccina (“dry (meat)”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).[1] Cognate with Spanish cecina.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaˈθina̝/, (western) /t͡ʃaˈsina̝/

Noun

chacina f (plural chacinas)

  1. jerky; cured meat

Adjective

chacina m or f (plural chacinas)

  1. (archaic) dry, cured
    • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a:
      Tres tiras de vaca chaçina, huna mesa de pees et outro banco en que seen duas çestas de masa et mays outro çesto de masa.
      Three shreds of cured cow, a table with its feet and another bench where there are two baskets with dough and another basket with dough

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “cecina”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: cha‧ci‧na

Etymology 1

Unknown. Maybe from Vulgar Latin *siccina (“dry meat”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).

Noun

chacina f (plural chacinas)

  1. slaughter; massacre (the killing of a large number of people)
    Synonyms: massacre, matança, morticínio
  2. slaughter (the killing of livestock for food or products)
    Synonym: abate

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chacina

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

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