chousa

chousa

Galician

an old walled chousa, zarro, or devesa

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese, from Latin clausa (“enclosed”). Compare Portuguese chouso, chousura.

Noun

chousa f (plural chousas)

1. enclosed woodland

   Synonyms: devesa, landeira, zarra

2. enclosed pastures or orchard
   • 1362, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 172:

     en toda a chousa que Andre Deus de Ueyga tinna sarrada et marcada por marcos et chantada de vinna

     in all the enclosing that André de Deus de Veiga had closed and delimited by boundary stoned and planted with vines

3. (fishing) a fine mesh net

Derived terms

• Chousa
• Chousa Grande
• Chousela
• Chouselas

Related terms

• choer (“to enclose”)
• chouso
• Chouso
• chousura
• conchouso

References

• “chousa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “chousa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “chousa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “chousa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chousa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.