touca

Attested in local Medieval Latin documents as tauca, from a substrate pre-Latin language, from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).^[1]

Cognate with Portuguese touca, Spanish toca, Basque taika.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtowka̝/

touca f (plural toucas)

1. peritoneum, cloth-like tissue which surrounds the guts of animals

   Synonym: teaz

2. cloth, shawl, veil
   • 1280, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo, page 1090:

     una savaa et IIas toucas et una saya d-estanforte

     a bed sheet and two shawls and a robe of [cloth] of Stanford

   Synonym: veo

3. coif; headdress
   • 1434, M. Lucas Alvarez & M. J. Justo Martín (eds.), Fontes documentais da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Pergameos da serie Bens do Arquivo Histórico Universitario (Anos 1237-1537). Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 358:

     Item mando a a dita Ynes a mina touca que ten os deytados postiços et que esta en duas peças, et huna das peças ten huna orela con ouro et con sirgo verde

     Item, I bequeath said Inés my [nun's] headdress, that have detachable laterals[?] and come in two pieces, and one of them has a trim with gold and green silk

   Synonym: cofia

4. green laver (Ulva lactuca)

• touquinegra (“nun”)

• touciño (“lard”)

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

• Rhymes: -owkɐ, (with w-dropping) -okɐ
• Hyphenation: tou‧ca

touca f (plural toucas)

1. (Brazil) knit cap; beanie; bobble hat (cap worn for protection from the cold)

   Synonym: gorro

2. swim cap
3. wimple

• touca de banho
• touca de natação