tecer

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese tecer, from Latin texere, present active infinitive of texō. Cognate with Portuguese tecer and Spanish tejer.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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

Derived terms

• tecelán
• tecedeira
• tecedor
• tecido

References

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tecer, from Latin texere, present active infinitive of texō, from Proto-Italic *teksō, either from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti or from *teḱ-se-ti, both from *teḱ- (“to beget, produce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɨˈseɾ/
• IPA^(key): /teˈseɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to weave; to spin
2. (transitive, figuratively) to devise
3. (transitive, figuratively) to scheme, to plot

Synonyms

• (to weave): urdir
• (to devise): engendrar
• (to scheme): urdir

Derived terms

• tecedura
• tecido