Noun: estaca
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | estaca |
| Plural f | estacas |
Sample Sentences
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herdade do Amenal, conmo jaz entre estacas et regos (property of the Alderwood, in the way that it is limited in between stakes and ditches) [1315, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, editor, Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 34:]
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que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela (nobody should dare to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, not to insert stakes in it) [1432, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 69]
Nouns inflected like estaca
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
1. Attested circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from unattested Medieval Latin *stacca, probably from Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 (*staka), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.
2. Cognate with Portuguese estaca, Spanish estaca, Catalan estaca, Occitan estaca, Old French estaque and English stake. See: Portuguese Nouns '
estaca', Spanish Nouns '
estaca', Catalan Nouns '
estaca', English Nouns '
stake'.
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