demarcar

Attested since the 10th century in local Latin documents, from de- +‎ marcar, from marco (“boundary mark”), frequent in local documents since the 9th century; given its early local documentation it is not a borrowing from Italian, but from Gothic or Suevic. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary, region”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“boundary, border”).

• IPA^(key): /demaɾˈkaɾ/

demarcar (first-person singular present demarco, first-person singular preterite demarquei, past participle demarcado)

1. to limit

   Synonyms: derregar, estremar, lindar

   • 1275, Emilio Duro Peña, editor, Documentos da catedral de Ourense, Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 347:

     a que leyra iaz a par cum outra leyra de nos meesmo da una parte e o camino que vay para Moreyras da outra e demarca da outra parte cuna leyra de meus sobrinos

     and this strip of land is side by side with another of our own, and with the way that goes to Moreiras on other side, and limits on the other side with a strip of land of my nephews

2. to demarcate, to delimit

   Synonyms: derregar, deslindar, estremar

3. to divide and allot a terrain

• demarcación

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “demarcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “demarcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “demarcar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “demarcar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “demarcar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “demarcar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: de‧mar‧car

demarcar (first-person singular present demarco, first-person singular preterite demarquei, past participle demarcado)

1. to demarcate

• IPA^(key): /demaɾˈkaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: de‧mar‧car

demarcar (first-person singular present demarco, first-person singular preterite demarqué, past participle demarcado)

1. mark the bounds of; define; delimit

• “demarcar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10