faneca
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Trisopterus luscus Gervais
Catalan
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic فَنِيقَة (fanīqah, “sack”).
Pronunciation
Noun
faneca f (plural faneques)
- (historical) a unit of dry measure equivalent to 8 or 12 almuds and varying from anywhere between 10 and 43 litres
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Galician faneca.
Pronunciation
Noun
faneca f (plural faneques)
Further reading
- “faneca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Etymology
Perhaps from fanar (“to make blunt; to mutilate”).
Pronunciation
Noun
faneca f (plural fanecas)
- pouting (Trisopterus luscus) (fish)
Derived terms
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “faneca”, 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), “faneca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “faneca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “faneca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: fa‧ne‧ca
Noun
faneca f (plural fanecas)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
faneca f (plural fanecas)
Further reading
- “faneca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28