tasca
Catalan edit
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tasca f (plural tasques)
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Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (“bag, pouch”).
Noun edit
tasca f (plural tascas)
Etymology 2 edit
Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“peg”).[1]
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tasca f (plural tascas)
- an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them
- the action of scutching the flax
- a reunion for scutching the flax
Noun edit
tasca f (plural tascas)
- (mildly derogatory) tavern
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tasca f (plural tascas)
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
tasca
- inflection of tascar:
References edit
- “tasca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “tasca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “tasca (rede)” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “tasca 'taberna'” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “tasca” 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) “tascar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
Compare Italian tasca, German Tasche, Danish taske, Czech taška.
Noun edit
tasca (plural tascas)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Frankish *taskā, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *das-, *des- (“to fray”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tasca f (plural tasche)
- pocket
- Le penne spia possono essere facilmente agganciate alla tasca della giacca o della camicia, e nessuno sospetterà nulla.
- Pen voice recorders can be easily clipped onto your jacket or shirt pocket and no one will suspect anything.
- 1995, “Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino”, in Montgolfières, performed by Gianmaria Testa:
- Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino / dentro la tasca ti porterei / nel fazzoletto di cotone e profumo / nel fazzoletto ti nasconderei
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- tasca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin tasca, from Latin taxa.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Gascon) (file)
Noun edit
tasca f (plural tascas)
- sack, pouch
- (historical) the right of champart
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From tascar (“to nibble”).
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tasca f (plural tascas)
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
tasca
- inflection of tascar:
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Deverbal from tascar (“to scutch; to nibble”); see also Portuguese tasca.
Noun edit
tasca f (plural tascas)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
tasca
- inflection of tascar:
Further reading edit
- “tasca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014