comarca

Etymology

Spanish comarca

Noun

comarca (plural comarcas)

1. A traditional region or local administrative division found in parts of Spain, Portugal, Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil.

Anagrams

• Carcamo

Etymology

From co- +‎ marca.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /koˈmaɾ.kə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kuˈmar.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /koˈmaɾ.ka/

Noun

comarca f (plural comarques)

1. district

Further reading

• “comarca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology

From Old Portuguese comarcar (“to share limits”),^[1] from co- (“with”) +‎ marcar (“to delimit”), from Medieval Latin marco (“boundary stone”), frequent in local documents since the 9th century together with its derivatives marcar and demarcar (“to delimit”). Given its early local documentation it is not a borrowing from Italian, but from Gothic or Suevic.^[2] Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary, region”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“boundary, border”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈmaɾka̝/

Noun

comarca f (plural comarcas)

1. a district or territory

References

• “comarca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “comarcar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “comarca” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Noun

comarca f (plural comarche)

1. comarca

Etymology

From co- +‎ marca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈmarka/

Noun

comarca f (plural comarcas)

1. district

Further reading

• “comarca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.