Noun: cerca
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cerca |
| Plural f | cercas |
Sample Sentences
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Algũs poꝛtugueſes q̃ ha viram quiſerã dizer ſer tamanha eſta cerca como ha ḋ Lixboa […] (Some Portuguese men who saw it wanted to say this wall was as big as the one in Lisbon […]) [1569, Gaspar da Cruz, “Capitulo sexto / em ho qual particularmente ſe trata da cidade da Cantam [Chapter six / which tells particularly of the city of Canton]” (chapter VI), in Tractado em que ſe cõtam muito poꝛ eſtẽſo as couſas da China […] [Treaty in which the matters of China are told very extensively […]], 1st edition, Andre de Burgos, unnumbered page:]
Nouns inflected like cerca
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Deverbal from cercar (“surround”), or from Old Galician-Portuguese cerca (“surround”), from a Vulgar Latin *circa (compare Spanish cerca, northern Italian cerca, French cerce), from the feminine of Latin circus. See: Spanish Nouns '
cerca', Italian Nouns '
cerca', French Nouns '
cerce', Latin Nouns '
circus'.
Verbs referencing "cerca"
Spanish Nouns
cerca.
Translations