chacina

• chaciña

15th century. Probably from Vulgar Latin *siccina (“dry (meat)”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).^[1] Cognate with Spanish cecina.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈθina̝/, (western) /t͡ʃaˈsina̝/

chacina f (plural chacinas)

1. jerky; cured meat

chacina m or f (plural chacinas)

1. (archaic) dry, cured
   • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a:

     Tres tiras de vaca chaçina, huna mesa de pees et outro banco en que seen duas çestas de masa et mays outro çesto de masa.

     Three shreds of cured cow, a table with its feet and another bench where there are two baskets with dough and another basket with dough

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chacina”, 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), “chacina”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chacina”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Hyphenation: cha‧ci‧na

Unknown. Maybe from Vulgar Latin *siccina (“dry meat”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).

chacina f (plural chacinas)

1. slaughter; massacre (the killing of a large number of people)

   Synonyms: massacre, matança, morticínio

2. slaughter (the killing of livestock for food or products)

   Synonym: abate

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chacina

1. inflection of chacinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “chacina”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “chacina”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025