cadea

See also: cădea

Galician

Cadeas ("chains")

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cadea (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin catēna. Cognate with Portuguese cadeia and Spanish cadena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈdea/ [kɑˈð̞e.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: ca‧de‧a

Noun

cadea f (plural cadeas)

1. chain
2. prison

   Synonyms: cárcere, prisión, trenla

Related terms

• cadeado

 

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cadea”, 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), “cadea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cadea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• cadẽa

Etymology

Inherited from Latin catēna, from Proto-Italic *katesnā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈdea/
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: ca‧de‧a

Noun

cadea f (plural cadeas)

1. chain
2. (metonymically) prision
   • 1432, untitled; republished as Ángel Rodríguez González, editor, Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463) (in Galician), Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, 1989, page 69:

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     [que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela e o que o contrario fezer peyte de pena por la primeira vez XX marauedises e por la segunda XXX maravedisse e por la tercera que pague perca o caabre ou cordaçon que asy amarrar o dito nauio e fasta dez dias enna cadea.]

     Nobody should dare to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, not to insert stakes in it; the one doing it should pay, the first time, 20 coins; the second time, 30 coins; and, at the third time, he should lost the cable or rope used for mooring the ship, and he should stay up to ten days in prison.

Descendants

• Fala: cadea
• Galician: cadea
• Portuguese: cadeia

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cadea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cadea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG