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cunca

cunca noun: a traditional Galician unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 1–1.5 L depending on the substance measured.

Noun

cunca (plural cuncas)

  1. (historical) A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 1–1.5 L depending on the substance measured.
  2. (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.

Forms of cunca

pluralcuncas

Origin of cunca

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”).

Questions about cunca

What does cunca mean?
Cunca means a traditional Galician unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 1–1.5 L depending on the substance measured.
What part of speech is cunca?
Cunca is a noun.
What is the plural of cunca?
The plural of cunca is cuncas.

Words near cunca in the dictionary

  1. Cunanans
  2. Cunard
  3. Cunarder
  4. Cunarders
  5. Cunas
  6. cunca
  7. Cuncan
  8. cunch
  9. cunctation
  10. cunctations
  11. cunctatious

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