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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish comarca.

Noun

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comarca (plural comarcas)

  1. A traditional region or local administrative division found in parts of Spain, Portugal, Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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From co- +‎ marca.

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Noun

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comarca f (plural comarques)

  1. district

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese comarca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back-formation from comarcar (to share limits),[1] from co- (with) +‎ marcar (to delimit), from marco (boundary stone), attested since the 9th century in local Latin documents, as well as its derivatives marcar and demarcar (to delimit).

Given its early local documentation it can not be a borrowing from Old Italian, but from Gothic or Suevic [Term?] instead.[2] Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markō (boundary, region), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (boundary, border).

Compare Sicilian cumarca.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /koˈmaɾka/ [koˈmaɾ.kɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾka
  • Hyphenation: co‧mar‧ca

Noun

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comarca f (plural comarcas)

  1. a district, province or territory; a shire
    Synonym: bisbarra
    • 1391, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 106:
      e que nos diades mays uos e todas uosas uozes para senpre de cada hun anos hun porco chamoscado, que seja sen maliça, con pan e con vino, segundo huso e costume da comarca
      and you and your successors shall give us, each year and forever, a singed pork, free of any malice, with bread and wine, as it is customary in the shire
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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “marcar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  2. ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. marco.

Italian

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Noun

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comarca f (plural comarche)

  1. comarca

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From com +‎ marca.

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  • Hyphenation: co‧mar‧ca

Noun

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comarca f (plural comarcas)

  1. (dated) administrative division or territory, especially one close to boundaries
  2. (law) a region under the rule of one or more judges or courts

Spanish

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Etymology

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From co- +‎ marca. Compare Sicilian cumarca.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /koˈmaɾka/ [koˈmaɾ.ka]
  • Rhymes: -aɾka
  • Syllabification: co‧mar‧ca

Noun

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comarca f (plural comarcas)

  1. district
    Synonym: distrito

Further reading

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