cunca

Galician

a cunca used for drinking wine

Alternative forms

• conca

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese cunca, from Latin concha (“mussel, vessel”), from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē, “shell, mussel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuŋka̝/

Noun

cunca f (plural cuncas)

1. bowl
   • 1395, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 160:

     mando a miña Neta Tareija sanches todo o aliofar et coraes que eu ey et os esmaltes et o meu Reliquario esmaltado et a miña Cunca de plata dourada et as miñas doas de ouro

     I send to my granddaughter Tareixa Sanchez all of my pearls and corals, and the enamels, and my enamelled relicary and my gilded silver bowl and my beads of gold

   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 418:

     Iten, das cunqas e talladores e poças e barcaas e de outras quaes quer vaselas de madeira, que page o vendedor de cada tres mrs un diñeiro

     Item, of the bowls, and plates, and large bowls, and trays, and any other wooden vessel, the seller should pay a denary per three mrs.

2. basin

   Synonym: bacía

3. traditional dry measure (a 1/12 or a 1/16 of a ferrado; approximately a litre)
4. traditional measure of surface (a 1/12 or a 1/16 of a ferrado; approximately 50 sq m)
5. (anatomy) dimple
6. (anatomy) orbit, eye socket

Derived terms

• lavacuncas (“Genista tridentata”, literally “bowl-washer”)
• recuncar (“to repeat”)

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cunca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “cunca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.