estaca.
stake (pointed piece of wood)
Meaning & usage
stake (pointed piece of wood)
cutting (piece of a branch removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant)
Where this word comes from
From Old Galician-Portuguese estaca, from Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 (*staka), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from *(s)teg-. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, Catalan, and Occitan estaca, Old French estaque and English stake.
inflection of estacar: third-person singular present indicative
inflection of estacar: second-person singular imperative
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