devasa
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Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galicia and Old Galician-Portuguese devasso (“desert”), perhaps from a Celtic cognate of Latin devastare (compare Irish fás and fásach, "waste, desert") ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *de + *weh₂st- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Portuguese devassa.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]devasa m (plural devasas)
- firebreak, fire line, firetrail (Australia) (An area cleared of all flammable material in the woods to prevent a fire from spreading across it)
- Synonym: cortalumes
- (computing) firewall
- Synonym: cortalumes
References
[edit]- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “devasso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “devasso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “devasa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “debazo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “devasa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “devasa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “gastar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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