berça
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛʁ.sa/
Verb
berça
- third-person singular past historic of bercer
Anagrams
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese verça (likely via Galician verza or a northern pronunciation), from Vulgar Latin *virdia, from Latin viridia, neuter plural of viridis. Compare Spanish berza, Italian verza, Romanian varză.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbeʁ.sɐ/ [ˈbeh.sɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈbeɾ.sɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈbeʁ.sɐ/ [ˈbeχ.sɐ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˈbeɻ.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbeʁ.sa/ [ˈbeh.sa]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbeɾ.sɐ/
- Hyphenation: ber‧ça
Noun
berça f (plural berças)
- collard greens
- Synonym: couve
Derived terms
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
berça
- inflection of berçar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “berça”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “berça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026