cuña

See also: cuna, Cuna, cùna, cunã, and cüna

Galician

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century. Ultimately from Latin cuneus. Cognate with Portuguese cunha and Spanish cuña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuɲɐ]

Noun

cuña f (plural cuñas)

1. wedge
   • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 411:

     Et mais que o dito señor obispo e cabíidoo e conçello que dían ao dito Sueyro e a Diego Aafonso pera a dita obra toda a pedra e madeira e crabageen e calabres e petrechos... e meestres e feramentas e cuñas e marras e todas las outras cousas que feser mester et foren necesarias pera se a dita obra faser

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2. chock (for wheel)

   Synonym: calzo

3. (figured) influence; connections

Derived terms

• cuñar
• cuñeira

References

• “cuña” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cuña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cuña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cuña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɲa/ [ˈku.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -uɲa
• Syllabification: cu‧ña

Etymology 1

From cuño or from Vulgar Latin *cunea, from Latin cuneus. Compare Portuguese cunha.

Noun

cuña f (plural cuñas)

1. wedge
2. chock (for wheel)
3. (typography) quoin
4. (colloquial) influence, weight, pull
5. (television, radio) slot, spot
6. (anatomy) cuneus (portion of the occipital lobe)
7. (colloquial, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Rep., El Salvador) connections

   Synonyms: enchufe, palanca

Derived terms

• cuña publicitaria
• precuña

 

Related terms

• acuñar
• cuñado
• cuñar
• cuño

 

Etymology 2

Verb

cuña

1. inflection of cuñar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cuña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014