estivada.
swidden (a bounded area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn)
Meaning & usage
swidden (a bounded area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn)
slash and burn (a technique in agriculture when a communal terrain is provisionally divided and bounded, and the plant matter in it is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare it for a few crops)
stake used for enclosing a terrain
Where this word comes from
14th century. Unknown. Perhaps from *estivar, from Latin aestivus (“summerly”) and aestus (“fire”), whence Galician estío (“summer”); alternatively from Latin exstirpāre (“to uproot”), phonetically unlikely; or from Latin stīpes (“post, stake”).
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