cómaro

Galician

Attested in local Latin documents at least since 910. Its etymology is debated;^[1] most probably it derives from a substrate language.^[2] If related to Old Irish comar (“co-ploughing”),^[3] then probably from Proto-Celtic *kom (“with, co-”) + Proto-Celtic *aro-, the latter from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to ploug”).

cómaro m (plural cómaros)

strip of land in between two contiguous farm plots
Synonym: arró
- 1271, José-Luis Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 249:
  deuemos esta herdade de suso a de finar fielmente quanta e qual en paz e por quaes terminos e por quaes comaros e por quaes marcos
  we must faithfully and peaceably end [delimit?] the aforementioned property, by its limits, and by its cómaros, and by its landmarks
headland, strip of land around a farm plot usually left fallow [10th–21th c.]
Synonyms: arró, cemba
hedge (ridge in between two contiguous plots of land)
Synonyms: arró, cemba, sebe

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “comaro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “comaro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “comaro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cómaro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cómaro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Pensado, José Luis, Messner, Dieter (2003) “comaro”, in Bachiller Olea: Vocabulos gallegos escuros: lo que quieren decir (Cadernos de Lingua: anexos; 7)‎^[1], A Coruña: Real Academia Galega / Galaxia, →ISBN.
^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “marcar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos
^ eDIL s.v. comar <dil.ie/10733>