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tecer

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Galician

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tecer, from Latin texere. Cognate with Portuguese tecer and Spanish tejer.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /teˈθeɾ/, (western) /teˈseɾ/

Verb

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tecer (first-person singular present tezo, first-person singular preterite tecín, past participle tecido)
tecer (first-person singular present teço, first-person singular preterite tecim or teci, past participle tecido, reintegrationist norm)

  1. (ambitransitive) to weave
    • 1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 49:
      dúas cassas ẽna villa da Cruña, ẽna rrúa da Corredoyra onde tecen as cordas
      two houses in the town of A Coruña, in the Corredoira street, where they weave the ropes
    Synonym: tear
  2. (transitive) to interweave, to weave together
  3. (figurative) to devise, to scheme, to plot
    Synonyms: tramar, urdir
  4. (figurative) to rock, to swing

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin texere.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    tecer

    1. (transitive, intransitive) to weave

    Descendants

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    • Galician: tecer
    • Portuguese: tecer

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    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tecer, from Latin texere, from Proto-Italic *teksō, either from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti or from *teḱ-se-ti, both from *teḱ- (to beget, produce). Compare Galician tecer, Spanish tejer.

    Pronunciation

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    • Hyphenation: te‧cer

    Verb

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    tecer (first-person singular present teço, first-person singular preterite teci, past participle tecido)

    1. (transitive, intransitive) to weave; to spin
      Synonym: urdir
    2. (transitive, figuratively) to devise
      Synonym: engendrar
    3. (transitive, figuratively) to scheme, to plot
      Synonym: urdir

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