cadea

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Galician

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Cadeas ("chains")

Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

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    cadea f (plural cadeas)

    1. chain
    2. prison
      Synonyms: cárcere, prisión, trenla
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    References

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    Old Galician-Portuguese

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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

      Pronunciation

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

      Noun

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      cadea f (plural cadeas)

      1. chain
      2. (metonymically) prision
        • 1432, untitled; republished as Ángel Rodríguez González, editor, Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463), 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

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

      References

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