cauce

• calcee, causy

From Anglo-Norman caucié, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, from either Latin calx (“limestone”) or calciō (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”).

• IPA^(key): /kau̯ˈseː/, /ˈkau̯seː/

cauce (plural cauces)

1. A raised and surfaced road; highway or causeway.

• cawcewey

• ⇒ English: causeway
• Yola: caushe
• → Irish: cabhsa

• “caucẹ̄(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Latin calicem. Doublet of cáliz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkauθe/ [ˈkau̯.θe] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkause/ [ˈkau̯.se] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -auθe (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ause (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: cau‧ce

cauce m (plural cauces)

1. riverbed

   Synonyms: álveo, madre, lecho

2. course (of river)

   Synonym: curso

3. current

   Synonym: corriente

   • 2023 June 20, Eva Pérez Sorribes, “La Guardia Civil rescata el cadáver de un barranquista atrapado en un barranco de Huesca”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Por la mañana, los rastreos aéreos confirmaron la existencia de una saca —de las que usan para la práctica del barranquismo— flotando en el cauce y al descender con la ayuda de una grúa, pudieron ratificar que era propiedad del fallecido.

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• “cauce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024