cauce

• calcee, causy

From Anglo-Norman caucié, from Vulgar Latin *calciāta, from either Latin calx (“limestone”) or calciō (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkau̯seː/

cauce (plural cauces)

1. A raised and surfaced road; highway or causeway.

• cawcewey

• ⇒ English: causeway
• Yola: caushe

• “caucẹ̄(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Latin calix, calicis. Doublet of cáliz.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈkauθe/ [ˈkau̯.θe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈkause/ [ˈkau̯.se]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -auθe
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -ause
• Syllabification: cau‧ce

cauce m (plural cauces)

1. riverbed

   Synonyms: álveo, madre, lecho

2. course (of river)
3. current

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