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Galician
Etymology
Unknown.[1] Attested in local documents since the 12th century.
Pronunciation
Noun
cárcava f (plural cárcavas)
- ditch, moat, trench
- 1299, M. Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira (1025-1310). Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 1217:
- como se departe ençima pelo lavradio et pello souto de Fondeyxo segundo commo foy a çima a carcava do castro
- as it departs up by the farm field and by the orchard of chestnut trees of Fondeixo, as it goes up till the moat of the hill-fort
- Synonym: foxo
- ditch, canal
- Synonyms: cal, canle
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “carcaua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- “carcava” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cárcava”, 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), “cárcava”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cárcava”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
From cárcavo, from cácabo, itself from Latin cācabus (“cooking pot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cárcava f (plural cárcavas)
- (geomorphology) gully, ravine
- ditch
- Synonyms: zanja, hoya, fosa, barranco
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