comarca

Meaning

a district, province or territory; a shire

Hyphenated as

co‧mar‧ca

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/koˈmaɾka̝/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese comarca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back-formation from comarcar (“to share limits”), from co- (“with”) + marcar (“to delimit”), from marco (“boundary stone”), attested since the 9th century in local Latin documents, as well as its derivatives marcar and demarcar (“to delimit”).
Given its early local documentation it can not be a borrowing from Old Italian, but from Gothic or Suevic [Term?] instead. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary, region”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“boundary, border”).
Compare Sicilian cumarca.

Sentences

É un gran río troiteiro sendo famosas as súas especies fóra da súa comarca .

It is a large trout river and its species is famous outside of its region.

Neste corredor atópanse as localidades mais poboadas da comarca .

In this corridor are the most populous places in the region.