tecer

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese tecer, from Latin texere, present active infinitive of texō. Cognate with Portuguese tecer and Spanish tejer.

• IPA^(key): /teˈθeɾ/, (western) /teˈseɾ/

tecer (first-person singular present tezo, first-person singular preterite tecín, past participle tecido)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to weave
   • 1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 49:

     dúas cassas ẽna villa da Cruña, ẽna rrúa da Corredoyra onde tecen as cordas

     two houses in the town of A Coruña, in the Corredoira street, where they weave the ropes

   Synonym: tear

2. (transitive) to interweave, to weave together
3. (figuratively) to devise, to scheme, to plot

   Synonyms: tramar, urdir

4. (figuratively) to rock, to swing

• tecelán
• tecedeira
• tecedor
• tecido

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

From Old Portuguese tecer, from Latin texere, present active infinitive of texō, from Proto-Italic *teksō, either from Proto-Indo-European *tḗtḱ-ti or from *teḱ-se-ti, both from *teḱ- (“to beget, produce”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tɨˈseɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /teˈseɾ/

tecer (first-person singular present indicative teço, past participle tecido)

1. (transitive) to weave; to spin
2. (transitive, figuratively) to devise
3. (transitive, figuratively) to scheme, to plot

• (to weave): urdir
• (to devise): engendrar
• (to scheme): urdir

• tecedura
• tecido