riscar

From Old Galician-Portuguese, probably from Latin resecare.

• IPA^(key): /risˈkaɾ/

riscar (first-person singular present risco, first-person singular preterite risquei, past participle riscado)

1. to strike (to delete or cross out)
   • 1337, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 81:

     a qual nota non era riscada nen chançelada por sinal

   Synonyms: borrar, cancelar

   • the aforementioned note was not struck nor cancelled by any sign

2. to scratch; to draw using a sharp tool
3. to harrow

   Synonym: gradar

• Note: risc- are changed to risqu- before front vowels (e).

• risco

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

Inherited from Latin resecāre (“to cut off, to curtail, to restrain”).

riscar (first-person singular present risco, first-person singular preterite risquei, past participle riscado)

1. to scratch, delete, suppress
2. to strike