# devesa
## Asturian
### Etymology

From Old Leonese devesa, from Late Latin [terra] dēfēnsa (“defended land”). Cognate with Galician devesa, Occitan devesa and Spanish dehesa.

### Noun

devesa f (plural deveses)
* a vast woodland, usually walled or fenced and shared between the locals, whose trees are not very densely packed, used to gather wood

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Late Latin [terra] dēfēnsa (“defended land”). Cognate with Portuguese, Occitan devesa and Spanish dehesa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [deˈβesɐ]

### Noun

devesa f (plural devesas)
* a vast woodland, usually walled or fenced, whose trees are not very densely packed
** 1447, María C. Sánchez Carrera, editor, El Bajo Miño en el siglo XV. El espacio y los hombres, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 328:Iten enna Morgan hun pedaso de devesa acerca do camino publico segun que parte per hum marqo que esta ao pee de hun carvallo grande que sou [son] nove carvallos entre grandes et pequenosItem, in Morgan a piece of a devesa near the public way as it goes from a boundary stone at the feet of a large oak tree; and those are nine oak trees, large and small
** 1948, Revista de Guimarães, volumes 58-60, page 303:Iba sempre a cabalo, pois tiña que andar máis de catro légoas por fragas, devesas e caborcos.He always rode a horse, for he had to travel over four leagues through isolated forests, sparse woods and gullies.

#### Derived terms

* Devesa
* Devesas
* Devesos
* Vilardevesa

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “deuesa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “devesa”, 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), “devesa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “devesa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ “devesa”. Dicionario da Real Academia Galega.

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Late Latin dēfēnsa. Cognate with Spanish dehesa, Galician devesa, Portuguese devesa.

### Noun

devesa m (plural devesas)
* a (often fenced or walled in) parcel of land, usually used as a pasture, or for hunting
* a section of uncultivated land

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* devêsa (obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese devesa, from Late Latin [terra] dēfēnsa (“defended land”).
Cognate with Galician devesa and Spanish dehesa. Doublet of defesa and defensa.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /deˈve.zɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /deˈve.zɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /deˈve.za/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨˈve.zɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɨˈve.zɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /dɨˈbe.zɐ/ [dɨˈβe.zɐ]
* Hyphenation: de‧ve‧sa

### Noun

devesa f (plural devesas)
* enclosure
* pasture
* grove or plantation of chestnut trees or oaks

#### Related terms

* defesa