devesa
See also: devêsa
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin [terra] dēfensa (“defended land”). Cognate with Portuguese devesa and Spanish dehesa.
Pronunciation
Noun
devesa f (plural devesas)
- a vast woodland, usually walled or fenced, whose trees are not very densely packed[1]
- 1447, María C. Sánchez Carrera (ed.), El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 328:
- Iten enna Morgan hun pedaso de devesa acerca do camino publico segun que parte per hum marqo que esta ao pee de hun carvallo grande que sou [son] nove carvallos entre grandes et pequenos
- Item, in Morgan a piece of a devesa near the public way as it goes from a boundary stone at the feet of a large oak tree; and those are nine oak trees, large and small
- Iten enna Morgan hun pedaso de devesa acerca do camino publico segun que parte per hum marqo que esta ao pee de hun carvallo grande que sou [son] nove carvallos entre grandes et pequenos
- 1948, Revista de Guimarães, volumes 58–60, page 303:
- Iba sempre a cabalo, pois tiña que andar máis de catro légoas por fragas, devesas e caborcos.
- He always rode a horse, for he had to travel over four leagues through isolated forests, sparse woods and gullies.
- Iba sempre a cabalo, pois tiña que andar máis de catro légoas por fragas, devesas e caborcos.
- 1447, María C. Sánchez Carrera (ed.), El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 328:
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “deuesa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “devesa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- devêsa (obsolete)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese devesa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin [terra] dēfensa (“defended land”).
Cognate with Galician devesa and Spanish dehesa.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: de‧ve‧sa
Noun
devesa f (plural s)
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