marxe

Galician

Etymology

15th century (margẽe). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin marginem, accusative of margo (“edge, brink, border, margin”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-. Cognate with Portuguese margem and Spanish margen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾʃe̝/

Noun

marxe f (plural marxes)

1. bank, terrain on the side of a river or a road

   Synonyms: beira, orela, ribeira

2. strip of uncultivated land in the outer limits of a terrain
   • 1409, Tomé Pensado, José Luis (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:

     Et pois ueer tenpo frio deuenno cauallgar et fazerlle trotar porllas margẽes et porllas aradas mansamente pella mañaa

     And after the cold weather |come, they should ride the colt and make him trot by the margins and by the ploughed fields gently in the morning

   Synonyms: arró, cómaro

3. margin (edge of paper which remains blank)

   Synonyms: beira, bordo

4. margin (permissible difference)
5. (archaic) unit of measure of surface

   Synonym: marxa

Derived terms

• marxear
• marxa
• marxal
• marxio

References

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