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Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
tasca f (plural tasques)
- task
Derived terms
Galician
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (“bag, pouch”).
Noun
tasca f (plural tascas)
- landing net
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“peg”).[1]
Noun
tasca f (plural tascas)
- an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them
- the action of scutching the flax
- a reunion for scutching the flax
Noun
tasca f (plural tascas)
- (mildly derogatory) tavern
Noun
tasca f (plural tascas)
- twait shad (Alosa fallax)
- allis shad (Alosa alosa)
Etymology 3
Verb
tasca
- inflection of tascar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tasca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tasca”, 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), “tasca (rede)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (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), “tasca 'taberna'”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tasca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Interlingua
Etymology
Compare Italian tasca, German Tasche, Danish taske, Czech taška.
Noun
tasca (plural tascas)
- bag
Italian
Etymology
From Frankish *taskā, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *das-, *des- (“to fray”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tasca f (plural tasche)
- pocket
Le penne spia possono essere facilmente agganciate alla tasca della giacca o della camicia, e nessuno sospetterà nulla.- Pen voice recorders can be easily clipped onto your jacket or shirt pocket and no one will suspect anything.
1995, “Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino”, in Montgolfières, performed by Gianmaria Testa:Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino / dentro la tasca ti porterei / nel fazzoletto di cotone e profumo / nel fazzoletto ti nasconderei- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
Further reading
- tasca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Occitan
Etymology
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin tasca.
Pronunciation
Noun
tasca f (plural tascas)
- sack, pouch
- pocket
- (historical) the right of champart
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From tascar (“to nibble”).
Noun
tasca f (plural tascas)
- restaurant
- bar
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Verb
tasca
- inflection of tascar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaska/
- Rhymes: -aska
- Syllabification: tas‧ca
Etymology 1
Deverbal from tascar (“to scutch; to nibble”); see also Portuguese tasca.
Noun
tasca f (plural tascas)
- bar; inn; drinking hole
Etymology 2
Verb
tasca
- inflection of tascar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading