cepa

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cepa, from Latin cippus (“post”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθepa̝/, (western) /ˈsepa̝/

cepa m (plural cepas)

1. stump; also the trunk of a living tree that has suffered many prunings

   Synonyms: carocha, coto, cozo, toco

2. charcoal
3. post, column

   Synonyms: pé, poste

4. trunk of a vine and the vine itself

   Synonym: bacelo

• cepada
• cepeira

• “cepa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cepa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cepa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cepa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cepa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• caepa, caepe

A loanword from an unknown, possibly substrate, language. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek κάπια (kápia, “onions”), Albanian qepë and Welsh cenhinen (“leek”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.pa/, [ˈkeːpä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.pa/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːpä]

cēpa f (genitive cēpae); first declension

1. onion

   Synonym: ūniō

First-declension noun.

• cēpārius/caepārius
• cēpōsus/caepōsus
• cēpulla

• “cepa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cepa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cepa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 108

cepa

1. 3rd person singular past indicative form of cept
2. 3rd person plural past indicative form of cept

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.pa/
• Rhymes: -ɛpa
• Syllabification: ce‧pa

cepa m inan

1. genitive singular of cep

cepa f (plural cepas)

1. (microbiology) strain (variant of a virus)
2. kind (a type, race or category)

   Synonyms: tipo, classe, laia, feitio

3. vine (climbing plant that produces grapes)

   Synonyms: vinha, vide, videira

4. stump (remains of a plant that has been cut off), especially one used to make charcoal

cepa

1. adulteress; wanton woman

From cepo.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθepa/ [ˈθe.pa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsepa/ [ˈse.pa]
• Rhymes: -epa
• Syllabification: ce‧pa

cepa f (plural cepas)

1. (wine) variety
2. (microbiology, virology) strain

   cepa de hongos ― strain of fungi

   • 2020 December 21, Ferran Bono; Guillermo Vega; Rafa Burgos, ““En Londres la gente pasa de llevar mascarilla en la calle y no parece muy preocupada por la nueva cepa””, in El País‎:

     En eso y en que tampoco parecen de momento muy alarmados los ciudadanos de una de las capitales financieras del mundo por la aparición en su país de una nueva cepa del coronavirus, con mayor poder de contagio.

     Besides this, the citizens of one of the world's largest financial capitals don't seem very concerned with the appearance of a new strain of the coronavirus in their country, one with greater contagious power.

3. rootstalk, rhizome (underground stem base)
4. grapevine stock, grapevine
5. root (of an animal's tail or horns, etc.)
6. ancestry, stock, origin (of family lineage)

   Synonym: linaje

   de buena cepa ― of good stock

7. (architecture) pier (of an arch or bridge)
8. nucleus (of cloud formation)

   Synonym: núcleo

• cepa virgen
• de buena cepa
• de pura cepa

• “cepa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014