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Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /foɾˈketa/,
- Rhymes: -eta
- Hyphenation: for‧que‧ta
Noun
forqueta f (plural forquetes)
- pitchfork
- wooden pole, stake
- a forked wooden post used to support the branches of fruit trees
- (archaic) fork
- Synonym: tenedor
Catalan
Etymology
From forca + -eta.
Pronunciation
Noun
forqueta f (plural forquetes)
- fork, fourchette
Synonyms
Further reading
Galician
Etymology
Attested since the 15th century. From forca (“pitchfork”) + -eta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /foɾˈketa/
- Rhymes: -eta
- Hyphenation: for‧que‧ta
Noun
forqueta m (plural forquetas)
- pole, stake
- 1427, M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Separata de Estudios Mindonienses, page 308:
Et auemos uos a dar para la dita vinna duzentos linoos et çen pees de vinna et dose par et hun de brancas para hun çento de forquetas para reparamento dela- And we shall give to you, for said vineyard, two hundred strings and a hundred vines and twelve pairs and one of white coinage for a hundred stakes for repairment of it
- Synonyms: estaca, forca
- small pitchfork
- Synonyms: forca, forcada
- fork
- Synonym: garfo
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “forqueta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “forqueta”, 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), “forqueta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “forqueta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish forca + -eta, the first element from Latin furca. Doublet of horqueta, if not simply the obsolete version of it. Compare French fourchette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /foɾˈketa/
- Rhymes: -eta
- Syllabification: for‧que‧ta
Noun
forqueta f (plural forquetas)
- (dated) fork
- Synonym: tenedor
Further reading