cadea

From Old Galician-Portuguese cadea (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin catēna. Cognate with Portuguese cadeia and Spanish cadena.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈdea/ [kɑˈð̞e.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: ca‧de‧a

cadea f (plural cadeas)

1. chain
2. prison

   Synonyms: cárcere, prisión, trenla

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

• cadẽa

Inherited from Latin catēna, from Proto-Italic *katesnā.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈdea/
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: ca‧de‧a

cadea f (plural cadeas)

1. chain
2. (metonymic) prision
   • 1432, untitled; republished as Ángel Rodríguez González, editor, Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463), Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, 1989, page 69:

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     [que nenghum seja ousado de amarrar nauio algund a a Ponte desta dita billa nen meter estaqas en ela e o que o contrario fezer peyte de pena por la primeira vez XX marauedises e por la segunda XXX maravedisse e por la tercera que pague perca o caabre ou cordaçon que asy amarrar o dito nauio e fasta dez dias enna cadea.]

     Nobody should dare to moor any ship to the bridge of this town, not to insert stakes in it; the one doing it should pay, the first time, 20 coins; the second time, 30 coins; and, at the third time, he should lost the cable or rope used for mooring the ship, and he should stay up to ten days in prison.

• Fala: cadea
• Galician: cadea
• Portuguese: cadeia

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cadea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cadea”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega