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Galician
Etymology
First attested in the 15th century. Ultimately from Latin cuneus. Cognate with Portuguese cunha and Spanish cuña.
Pronunciation
Noun
cuña f (plural cuñas)
- wedge
1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 411:Et mais que o dito señor obispo e cabíidoo e conçello que dían ao dito Sueyro e a Diego Aafonso pera a dita obra toda a pedra e madeira e crabageen e calabres e petrechos... e meestres e feramentas e cuñas e marras e todas las outras cousas que feser mester et foren necesarias pera se a dita obra faser- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- chock (for wheel)
- Synonym: calzo
- (figurative) influence; connections
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cuña”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cuña”, 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), “cuña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cuña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkuɲa/
- Rhymes: -uɲa
- Syllabification: cu‧ña
Etymology 1
From cuño or from Vulgar Latin *cunea, from Latin cuneus. Compare Portuguese cunha.
Noun
cuña f (plural cuñas)
- wedge
- chock (for wheel)
- (typography) quoin
- (colloquial) influence, weight, pull
- (television, radio) slot, spot
- (anatomy) cuneus (portion of the occipital lobe)
- (colloquial, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Rep., El Salvador) connections
- Synonyms: enchufe, palanca
- (journalism, Chile) sound bite
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
cuña
- inflection of cuñar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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