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estaca.

stake (pointed piece of wood)

6 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/isˈta.kɐ/Brazil/esˈta.kɐ/Brazil/iʃˈta.kɐ/Rio-de-Janeiro/eʃˈta.kɐ/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. stake (pointed piece of wood)

    feminine
  2. cutting (piece of a branch removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant)

    feminine
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.

verb/isˈta.kɐ/Brazil/esˈta.kɐ/Brazil/iʃˈta.kɐ/Rio-de-Janeiro/eʃˈta.kɐ/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. inflection of estacar: third-person singular present indicative

    form-of · indicative · present · singular · third-person
  2. inflection of estacar: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
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