Noun: devesa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | devesa |
| Plural f | devesas |
Sample Sentences
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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 [son] 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) [1447, María C. Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 328:]
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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.) [1948, Revista de Guimarães, volumes 58-60, page 303:]
Nouns inflected like devesa
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin [terra] dēfēnsa (“defended land”). Cognate with Portuguese, Occitan devesa and Spanish dehesa. See: Spanish Nouns '
dehesa'.
Verbs referencing "devesa"
Asturian Nouns
devesa, Portuguese Nouns
devesa.
Translations