tecer

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Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tecer, from Latin texere. Cognate with Portuguese tecer and Spanish tejer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teˈθeɾ/, (western) /teˈseɾ/

Verb

tecer (first-person singular present tezo, first-person singular preterite tecín, past participle tecido)
tecer (first-person singular present teço, first-person singular preterite tecim or teci, past participle tecido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to weave
    • 1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 49:
      dúas cassas ẽna villa da Cruña, ẽna rrúa da Corredoyra onde tecen as cordas
      two houses in the town of A Coruña, in the Corredoira street, where they weave the ropes
    Synonym: tear
  2. (transitive) to interweave, to weave together
  3. (figurative) to devise, to scheme, to plot
    Synonyms: tramar, urdir
  4. (figurative) to rock, to swing

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References

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin texere.

Pronunciation

Verb

tecer

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to weave

Descendants

  • Galician: tecer
  • Portuguese: tecer

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tecer, from Latin texere, from Proto-Italic *teksō, either from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti or from *teḱ-se-ti, both from *teḱ- (to beget, produce). Compare Galician tecer, Spanish tejer.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: te‧cer

Verb

tecer (first-person singular present teço, first-person singular preterite teci, past participle tecido)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to weave; to spin
    Synonym: urdir
  2. (transitive, figuratively) to devise
    Synonym: engendrar
  3. (transitive, figuratively) to scheme, to plot
    Synonym: urdir

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