touca

Galician

Etymology

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as tauca, from a substrate pre-Latin language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).[1]

Cognate with Portuguese touca, Spanish toca, Basque taika.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtowka̝/

Noun

touca f (plural toucas)

  1. peritoneum, cloth-like tissue which surrounds the guts of animals
    Synonym: teaz
  2. cloth, shawl, veil
    • 1280, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo, page 1090:
      una savaa et IIas toucas et una saya d-estanforte
      a bed sheet and two shawls and a robe of [cloth] of Stanford
    Synonym: veo
  3. coif; headdress
    • 1434, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 358:
      Item mando a a dita Ynes a mina touca que ten os deytados postiços et que esta en duas peças, et huna das peças ten huna orela con ouro et con sirgo verde
      Item, I bequeath said Inés my [nun's] headdress, that have detachable laterals[?] and come in two pieces, and one of them has a trim with gold and green silk
    Synonym: cofia
  4. green laver (Ulva lactuca)

Derived terms

References
  • “touca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “touca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “touca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “touca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “touca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Julian Santano Moreno (2004) “La familia del IE *teu-"hincharse" en las lenguas romances y en vasco. El sustrato indoeuropeo en la etimologia romance”, in Nouvelle revue d'onomastique‎, volume 43, number 1, →ISSN, page 21

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈto(w).kɐ/ [ˈto(ʊ̯).kɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈto(w).ka/ [ˈto(ʊ̯).ka]
 

  • Rhymes: -owkɐ, (with w-dropping) -okɐ
  • Hyphenation: tou‧ca

Noun

touca f (plural toucas)

  1. (Brazil) knit cap; beanie; bobble hat (cap worn for protection from the cold)
    Synonym: gorro
  2. swim cap
  3. wimple

Derived terms
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