devesa

From Old Leonese devesa, from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“defended land”). Cognate with Galician devesa, Occitan devesa and Spanish dehesa.

devesa f (plural deveses)

1. a vast woodland, usually walled or fenced and shared between the locals, whose trees are not very densely packed, used to gather wood

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“defended land”). Cognate with Portuguese, Occitan devesa and Spanish dehesa.

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devesa f (plural devesas)

1. a vast woodland, usually walled or fenced, whose trees are not very densely packed^[1]
   • 1447, María C. Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 328:

     Iten enna Morgan hun pedaso de devesa acerca do camino publico segun que parte per hum marqo que esta ao pee de hun carvallo grande que sou nove carvallos entre grandes et pequenos

     Item, in Morgan a piece of a devesa near the public way as it goes from a boundary stone at the feet of a large oak tree; and those are nine oak trees, large and small

   • 1948, Revista de Guimarães, volumes 58-60, page 303:

     Iba sempre a cabalo, pois tiña que andar máis de catro légoas por fragas, devesas e caborcos.

     He always rode a horse, for he had to travel over four leagues through isolated forests, sparse woods and gullies.

• Devesa
• Devesas
• Devesos
• Vilardevesa

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “deuesa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “devesa”, 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), “devesa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “devesa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Late Latin dēfēnsa. Cognate with Spanish dehesa, Galician devesa, Portuguese devesa.

devesa m (plural devesas)

1. a (often fenced or walled in) parcel of land, usually used as a pasture, or for hunting
2. a section of uncultivated land

• devêsa (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese devesa, from Late Latin dēfēnsa (“defended land”).

Cognate with Galician devesa and Spanish dehesa. Doublet of defesa and defensa.

• Hyphenation: de‧ve‧sa

devesa f (plural devesas)

1. enclosure
2. pasture
3. grove or plantation of chestnut trees or oaks

• defesa