cerca

From Latin circa.

cerca

1. near

cerca

1. third-person singular present indicative form of cercar
2. second-person singular imperative form of cercar

14th century. Probably a back-formation from Old Galician and Old Portuguese cercar (“to wall; to enclose”), from Late Latin circāre, present active infinitive of circō; or from a Vulgar Latin circa (compare Spanish cerca, northern Italian cerca, French cerce), from the feminine of Latin circus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾka̝/, (western) /ˈseɾka̝/

cerca f (plural cercas)

1. fence; enclosure

   Synonyms: cercado, peche, valado

2. (dated) wall

   Synonyms: muralla, muro

3. siege

   Synonyms: asedio, cerco

• Cerca

• cerco
• cercado

From Latin circa.

cerca

1. near

   Synonym: preto

• acerca de
• cerca de

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

From Malay cerca, from Sanskrit चर्चा (carcā, “discussion, talk, inquiry, trouble”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃər.t͡ʃa/
• Hyphenation: cêr‧ca

cêrca

1. insult, scorn

• “cerca” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

From cercare.

cerca f (plural cerche)

1. search

• ricerca

cerca

1. third-person singular present indicative of cercare
2. second-person singular imperative of cercare

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

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈseɻ.ka/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈseɾ.kɐ/
• Hyphenation: cer‧ca

cerca f (plural cercas)

1. fence (barrier)

• sebe, cercadura, grade

• cercania
• cerco

• cerquilha

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɻ.ka/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾ.kɐ/
• Hyphenation: cer‧ca

cerca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cercar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cercar

• cercado

From Latin circa.

cerca

1. around, approximately (followed by de)

• cerca de

From Late Latin circāre, present active infinitive of circō, from Latin circa, circus.

a cerca (third-person singular present cearcă, past participle cercat) 1st conj.

1. to examine, inspect, analyze, study
2. to search, ask, take interest in

• cerceta, căuta, examina, analiza, studia

• cercare

• cerc
• cerceta
• încerca

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈθerka/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈserka/
• Hyphenation: cer‧ca

• Audio (Latin America)

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From Latin circa (“around”), from earlier Latin circum.

cerca (superlative cerquísima)

1. close; near; around

• lejos

• acerca
• acercar
• cercanía
• cercano
• cerquita

From cercar, or from Old Spanish cerca, from a Vulgar Latin *circa (compare Portuguese cerca, northern Italian cerca, French cerce), from the feminine of Latin circus.

cerca f (plural cercas)

1. fence (a thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or a house perimeter)

   Synonyms: valla, verja

2. stone wall

   Synonym: barda (Mexico)

• cercar
• cerco

cerca

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cercar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cercar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cercar.

• “cerca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.