garza
Asturian edit
Noun edit
garza f (plural garces)
- heron (bird)
Galician edit
Alternative forms edit
- garcia (northeast)
- gharsa (eye dialect)
- garça (reintegrationist)
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese garça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a substrate language, probably Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.[1]
Cognate with Spanish garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
garza f (plural garzas)
References edit
- “garça” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “garça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “garza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “garza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “garza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “garza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Probably a semi-learned borrowing from French gaze, from Arabic غَزَّة (ḡazza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.
Noun edit
garza f (plural garze)
- gauze (fabric)
- (medicine) gauze (fabric used as surgical dressing)
- Synonym: garza idrofila
Further reading edit
- garza1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
garza f (plural garze)
- name of several species of heron:
- Synonym of airone bianco maggiore
- Synonym of airone cenerino
- Synonym of airone rosso
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- garza2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
garza
- inflection of garzare:
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.
Cognate with Galician garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈɡaɾθa/ [ˈɡaɾ.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈɡaɾsa/ [ˈɡaɾ.sa]
- (Castilian)
Audio: (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -aɾθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -aɾsa
- Syllabification: gar‧za
Noun edit
garza f (plural garzas)
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
garza f
Further reading edit
- “garza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014