cauce
Middle English
Alternative forms
- calcee, causy
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman caucié, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, from either Latin calx (“limestone”) or calciō (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kau̯ˈseː/, /ˈkau̯seː/
Derived terms
References
- “caucẹ̄(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈkauθe/ [ˈkau̯.θe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈkause/ [ˈkau̯.se]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -auθe
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -ause
- Syllabification: cau‧ce
Noun
cauce m (plural cauces)
- riverbed
- course (of river)
- current
- 2023 June 20, Eva Pérez Sorribes, “La Guardia Civil rescata el cadáver de un barranquista atrapado en un barranco de Huesca”, in El País:
- Por la mañana, los rastreos aéreos confirmaron la existencia de una saca —de las que usan para la práctica del barranquismo— flotando en el cauce y al descender con la ayuda de una grúa, pudieron ratificar que era propiedad del fallecido.
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “cauce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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