cerca.
moat, defensive enclosure
Meaning & usage
moat, defensive enclosure
Where this word comes from
Taken from Old Catalan cerca, itself from Vulgar Latin *circa (“surrounding structure”). Attested in the single mid-11th century Catalan document quoted below. Note the ⟨e⟩ for etymological Latin /ĭ/ as well as how it is paired with ⟨manedas⟩, another Romance word derived ultimately from Latin manēre through a Vulgar Latin *manita, showing both /ĭ/ > /e/ and /-t-/ > /d/.
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