trincheira

From Old Galician-Portuguese trincheira (13th century), from Old French trenchier (“to cut”), from Celtic.^[1]

trincheira f (plural trincheiras)

1. trench
2. (archaic) temple

   Synonyms: chincheira, sen, tempa, vidalla

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 85:

     sangraras o Cauallo en anbas llas uẽeas das trincheiras et tiralle do sange asaz

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• trinchar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “trincheira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “trinche”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “trincheira”, 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), “trincheira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

trincheira f (plural trincheiras)

1. temple (region of skull)

• Universo Cantigas - "trincheira"

• Hyphenation: trin‧chei‧ra

Borrowed from French tranchée.^[1][2]

trincheira f (plural trincheiras)

1. trench (long, narrow ditch)
2. (military) trench (narrow excavation used in warfare)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

trincheira

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