marxe

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾʃe/ [ˈmaɾ.ʃe]
• Rhymes: -aɾʃe
• Syllabification: mar‧xe

marxe m (plural márxenes)

1. margin

15th century (margẽe). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin marginem, accusative of margo (“edge, brink, border, margin”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs. Cognate with Portuguese margem and Spanish margen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾʃe/ [ˈmaɾ.ʃɪ]
• Rhymes: -aɾʃe
• Hyphenation: mar‧xe

marxe f (plural marxes)

1. bank, terrain on the side of a river or a road

   Synonyms: beira, orela, ribeira

2. strip of uncultivated land in the outer limits of a terrain

   Synonyms: arró, cómaro

   • 1409, Tomé Pensado, edited by José Luis, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 67:

     Et pois ueer tenpo frio deuenno cauallgar et fazerlle trotar porllas margẽes et porllas aradas mansamente pella mañaa

     And after the cold weather come, they should ride the colt and make him trot by the margins and by the ploughed fields gently in the morning

3. margin (edge of paper which remains blank)

   Synonyms: beira, bordo

4. margin (permissible difference)
5. (archaic) unit of measure of surface

   Synonym: marxa

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “margee”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “marg”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marxe”, 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), “marxe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marxe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN