[ˈtapjɐ]
OriginUnknown: perhaps onomatopoeic. Cognate with Portuguese taipa and Spanish tapia.
- archaic, masculineclay wall
“c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 291” — the Trojans had their town very well defended, and I'll tell you how they had their town so strong: their walls were very strong and very tall, and made not of clay, but of yellow and black and red an
- masculineenclosing wall
“que aiades uos et uossa uos a dita plaça et herdamento do canpo con seu chantado de duas yras que y esta que se determina asy: jas da huna parte antigua del Rey et da outra parte o canpo do çimiterio ” — you and your part must have said place and property called Campo, together with its plantation of two fields that is there, and which is delimited like this: by one side by the King's old road, by the
- wall
Formstapias(plural) · tápea(alternative)
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