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seara

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See also: Seara, searã, and seară

Galician

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Etymology

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See senra

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Noun

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seara f (plural searas)

  1. communal terrain, usually left fallow, undivided and covered by bushes, which is eventually grazed and plowed for the temporal production of rye or wheat; swidden
    Synonyms: cavada, estivada, roza
  2. cornfield
  3. (dated) day labor
    • 1303, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 150:
      Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar
      You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese sẽara, from Iberian Vulgar Latin senara, from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *senara (piece of land cultivated on the side), from *sen- (separation) (<< Proto-Indo-European *swé (self)) + *aryeti (to plow).

Cognate with Galician seara, senra, Mirandese senara, Asturian senra and Spanish serna.

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Noun

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seara f (plural searas)

  1. cornfield
  2. tilled land
  3. harvest

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Romanian

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Etymology

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From seară +‎ -a.

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Adverb

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seara

  1. in the evening
  2. every evening

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Noun

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seara

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of seară