estaca

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əsˈta.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /esˈta.ka/

estaca f (plural estaques)

1. stake (pointed piece of wood)

• estacar

See the etymology of the main entry.

estaca

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

• “estaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Attested circa 1300. From Old Galician/Old Portuguese, from an unattested Medieval Latin *stacca,[1] probably from Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 (staka), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-.

Cognate with Portuguese estaca, Spanish estaca, Catalan estaca, Occitan estaca, Old French estaque and English stake.

• IPA^(key): /esˈtaka̝/

estaca f (plural estacas)

1. stake (pointed piece of wood)
   • 1315, Manuel Lucas Álvarez (ed.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 34:

     herdade do Amenal, conmo jaz entre estacas et regos

     property of the Alderwood, in the way that it is limited in between stakes and ditches

   • 1432, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 69:

     que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela

     nobody should dare to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, not to insert stakes in it

2. (agriculture) beanpole

• estacada
• Estacada
• estacar
• Estacas
• estacón
• estaqueado

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

From Old Portuguese estaca, from Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 (staka), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from *(s)teg-.

Cognate with Galician estaca, Spanish estaca, Catalan estaca, Occitan estaca, Old French estaque and English stake.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iʃ.ˈta.kɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /es.ˈta.kɐ/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: es‧ta‧ca

estaca f (plural estacas)

1. stake (pointed piece of wood)
2. (agriculture) cutting (piece of a branch removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant)

• estacar
• estaquia

• staccato

• IPA^(key): /esˈtaka/, [esˈt̪aka]
• Hyphenation: es‧ta‧ca

estaca f (plural estacas)

1. stake (pointed piece of wood)
2. tent peg

• estacar
• estacón

See the etymology of the main entry.

estaca

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

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