hacha

hacha f (plural haches)

1. axe (tool)

hacha

1. (Old Chamorro) one (in general)

hacha

1. third-person singular past historic of hacher

• IPA^(key): /ˈat͡ʃa/

Borrowed from French hache.

hacha f (plural hachas)

1. axe, hatchet (tool for felling trees or chopping wood)
2. (colloquial) ace, wizard (someone who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field)

• The feminine noun hacha is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el hacha

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

From older facha, from a Vulgar Latin *fascla, from syncopation of *fascula, presumably from a crossing of Latin facula and fascis[1]. Doublet of fácula, a borrowing.

hacha f (plural hachas)

1. a kind of torch or large candle (often with four sticks)
2. a kind of wick or fuse (often made with esparto grass and tar), which does not go out easily in the wind
3. bundle of straw tied up like a strip and often used to help cover huts or other field constructions

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