coar

coar (plural coars)

1. Obsolete form of core.
   • 1675, Henry Hexham, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary:

     Coar of an Apple, or a Pear

14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cōlāre. Cognate with Portuguese coar and Spanish colar.

• IPA^(key): /koˈaɾ/

coar (first-person singular present coo, first-person singular preterite coei, past participle coado)

1. to strain, filter
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", p. 293:

     Et dizẽ os sabedores que [todolos] rrios [saem] do mar, et van [per] canos por la terra et por que a agoa sal do mar, vay se coando et adulçãdo quanto mays vay por terra espessa et se mays do mar arreda

     And the people who know say that every river exits from the sea, and goes through channels in the earth by which water comes from the sea, and it filters and sweetens the more it goes through dense earth and the more it draws away from the sea

• coada
• coadeira
• coador
• escoar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “coar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coando”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “coar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “coar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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coar

1. over

From Old Galician-Portuguese coar, from Latin cōlāre. Cognate with Galician coar and Spanish colar.

• Hyphenation: co‧ar

coar (first-person singular present coo, first-person singular preterite coei, past participle coado)

1. to strain, to filter
2. to distill

• escoar

From Latin cubō (“to lie down”), from Proto-Italic *kubāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb-.

• IPA^(key): /koˈaɾ/

coar

1. to brood, to incubate (an egg)

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.