cerca
Meaning
-
fence (barrier)
Frequency
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
- (transitive) to besiege
- (transitive) to surround
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