# cunca
## English
### Etymology

From Galician cunca (“bowl, $^1$⁄$_{60}$ Galician bushel”), from Old Galician-Portuguese cunca, from Latin concha (“mussel, vessel”), from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē, “shell, mussel”).

### Noun

cunca (plural cuncas)
* (historical) A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 1–1.5 L depending on the substance measured.
* (historical) A traditional Galician unit of land area reckoned as the amount needed to sow a cunca of seed, varying from 5–60 m² in different parts of Galicia.

#### Coordinate terms

* (unit of volume): cuartillo ($^1$⁄$_2$ cunca), esca (6 cuncas), ferrado (12 cuncas), fanega (60 cuncas)
* (unit of area): ferrado (12 cuncas)

### Anagrams

* nucca

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* conca

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cunca, from Latin concha (“mussel, vessel”), from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē, “shell, mussel”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkuŋkɐ]

### Noun

cunca f (plural cuncas)
* bowl
    Synonyms: cuncón, tixela, fiara, escá
** 1395, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 160:mando a miña Neta Tareija sanches todo o aliofar et coraes que eu ey et os esmaltes et o meu Reliquario esmaltado et a miña Cunca de plata dourada et as miñas doas de ouroI send to my granddaughter Tareixa Sanchez all of my pearls and corals, and the enamels, and my enamelled relicary and my gilded silver bowl and my beads of gold
** 1439, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 418:Iten, das cunqas e talladores e poças e barcaas e de outras quaes quer vaselas de madeira, que page o vendedor de cada tres mrs un diñeiroItem, of the bowls, and plates, and large bowls, and trays, and any other wooden vessel, the seller should pay a denary per three mrs.
* basin
    Synonym: bacía
* (historical) cunca, a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 1–1.5 L depending on the substance measured
* (historical) cunca, a traditional measure of land area equivalent to the amount of land that could be sown with a cunca of seed
* (anatomy) dimple
* (anatomy) eye socket, orbit

#### Coordinate terms

* (unit of volume): cuartillo ($^1$⁄$_2$ cunca), escá (6 cuncas), ferrado (12 cuncas), fanega (60 cuncas)
* (unit of area): ferrado (12 cuncas)

#### Derived terms

* cunqueiro (“kitchen shelf”)
* lavacuncas (“Genista tridentata”, literally “bowl-washer”)
* recuncar (“to repeat”)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cunca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cunca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cunca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cunca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cunca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN