cauce

Middle English

Alternative forms

• calcee, causy

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman caucié, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, from either Latin calx (“limestone”) or calciō (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈseː/, /ˈkau̯seː/

Noun

cauce (plural cauces)

1. A raised and surfaced road; highway or causeway.

Derived terms

• cawcewey

Descendants

• ⇒ English: causeway
• Yola: caushe
• → Irish: cabhsa

References

• “caucẹ̄(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin calicem. Doublet of cáliz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈkauθe/ [ˈkau̯.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈkause/ [ˈkau̯.se]
• Rhymes: -auθe
• Rhymes: -ause
• Syllabification: cau‧ce

Noun

cauce m (plural cauces)

1. riverbed

   Synonyms: álveo, madre, lecho

2. course (of river)

   Synonym: curso

3. current

   Synonym: corriente

   • 2023 June 20, Eva Pérez Sorribes, “La Guardia Civil rescata el cadáver de un barranquista atrapado en un barranco de Huesca”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Por la mañana, los rastreos aéreos confirmaron la existencia de una saca —de las que usan para la práctica del barranquismo— flotando en el cauce y al descender con la ayuda de una grúa, pudieron ratificar que era propiedad del fallecido.

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Derived terms

• encauzar

 

Further reading

• “cauce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16