cepa

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cepa, from Latin cippus (“post”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθepa̝/, (western) /ˈsepa̝/

cepa m (plural cepas)

1. stump; also the trunk of a living tree that has suffered many prunings

   Synonyms: carocha, coto, cozo, toco

2. charcoal
3. post, column

   Synonyms: pé, poste

4. trunk of a vine an the vine itself

   Synonym: bacelo

• cepada
• cepeira

• “cepa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cepa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cepa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cepa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cepa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• caepa

A loanword from an unknown language. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek κάπια (kápia, “onions”) and Welsh cenhinen (“leek”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.pa/

cēpa f (genitive cēpae); first declension

1. onion

First declension.

• ūnio

• cēpulla

• cepa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cepa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cepa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 108

cepa

1. 3rd person singular past indicative form of cept
2. 3rd person plural past indicative form of cept

cepa

1. genitive singular of cep

cepa f (plural cepas)

1. (microbiology) strain (variant of a virus)
2. kind (a type, race or category)
3. vine (climbing plant that produces grapes)
4. stump (remains of a plant that has been cut off), especially one used to make charcoal

• (kind): tipo, classe, laia, feitio
• (vine): vinha, vide, videira

From cepo

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈθepa/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈsepa/

cepa f (plural cepas)

1. variety (of wine)
2. strain (of virus)
3. rootstalk (underground stem base)
4. grapevine stock, grapevine
5. stump (of a tree), stub
6. root (of an animal’s tail or horns, etc.)
7. nucleus (of cloud formation)
8. ancestry, stock, origin (of family lineage)
9. pier (of an arch or bridge)

• (ancestry): linaje

• cepa virgen
• de buena cepa
• de pura cepa