cercear

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cercear, from Latin circināre. Compare Portuguese cercear and Spanish cercenar.

• IPA^(key): /θeɾθeˈaɾ/

cercear (first-person singular present cerceo, first-person singular preterite cerceei, past participle cerceado)
cercear (first-person singular present cerceio, first-person singular preterite cerceei, past participle cerceado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to shave (the head)

   Synonym: rapar

2. to cut or reap by the roots

   Synonyms: acaroar, cortar a rente, rentear

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cercear”, 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), “çerçe”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cercear”, 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), “cercear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cercear”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cercear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Late Latin circināre.

• IPA^(key): /t͡seɾ.t͡se.ˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

cercear

1. to shave (the head)

• Galician: cercear
• Portuguese: cercear

• Universo Cantigas - "cercear"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cercear, from Latin circināre. Compare Galician cercear and Spanish cercenar.

• Hyphenation: cer‧ce‧ar

cercear (first-person singular present cerceio, first-person singular preterite cerceei, past participle cerceado)

1. (transitive) to cut by the roots

   Synonym: rentear

2. (transitive) to trim

   Synonym: aparar

3. (transitive, figuratively) to diminish, to decrease

   Synonyms: reduzir, diminuir

4. (transitive, figuratively) to restrict, to limit

   Synonyms: restringir, limitar, coartar

• cerceamento
• cérceo

• “cercear”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025