coar

14th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cōlāre. Cognate with Portuguese coar and Spanish colar.

• IPA^(key): /koˈaɾ/

coar (first-person singular present coo, first-person singular preterite coei, past participle coado)

1. to strain, filter
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", p. 293:

     Et dizẽ os sabedores que [todolos] rrios [saem] do mar, et van [per] canos por la terra et por que a agoa sal do mar, vay se coando et adulçãdo quanto mays vay por terra espessa et se mays do mar arreda

     And the people who know say that every river exits from the sea, and goes through channels in the earth by which water comes from the sea, ant it filters and sweetens the more it goes through dense earth and the more it draws away from the sea

• coada
• coadeira
• coador
• escoar

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

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coar

1. over

From Old Galician-Portuguese coar, from Latin cōlāre. Cognate with Galician coar and Spanish colar.

• Hyphenation: co‧ar

coar (first-person singular present coo, first-person singular preterite coei, past participle coado)

1. to strain, to filter
2. to distill

• escoar