cerca

Meaning

Frequency

A2
Hyphenated as
cer‧ca
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈseʁ.kɐ/
Etymology

Deverbal from cercar (“surround”), or from Old Galician-Portuguese cerca (“surround”), from a Vulgar Latin *circa (compare Spanish cerca, northern Italian cerca, French cerce), from the feminine of Latin circus.

New
cercar

  1. (transitive) to besiege
  2. (transitive) to surround

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