comarca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish comarca.

Noun

comarca (plural comarcas)

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

Translations

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

• Aragonese: redolada f
• Basque: eskualde
• Catalan: comarca (ca) f
• Esperanto: komarko
• French: comarque (fr)
• Galician: comarca (gl) f, bisbarra (gl) f
• Portuguese: comarca (pt)
• Spanish: comarca (es) f

Anagrams

• Carcamo

Catalan

Etymology

From co- +‎ marca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈmar.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koˈmar.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koˈmaɾ.ka]

Noun

comarca f (plural comarques)

1. district

Derived terms

• subcomarca

Further reading

• “comarca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “comarca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “comarca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “comarca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese comarca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back-formation from comarcar (“to share limits”), 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. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary, region”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“boundary, border”).

Compare Sicilian cumarca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Related terms

• demarcar
• marcar
• marco

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “comarca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “comarcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “comarc”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “comarca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “comarca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Noun

comarca f (plural comarche)

1. comarca

Anagrams

• marocca

Portuguese

Etymology

From com +‎ marca.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈmaʁ.kɐ/ [koˈmah.kɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈmaʁ.kɐ/ [koˈmah.kɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /koˈmaɾ.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /koˈmaʁ.kɐ/ [koˈmaχ.kɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈmaɻ.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈmaɾ.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: co‧mar‧ca

Noun

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

Etymology

From co- +‎ marca. Compare Sicilian cumarca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

comarca f (plural comarcas)

1. district

   Synonym: distrito

Further reading

• “comarca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28