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tasca f (plural tasques)

  1. task

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (“bag, pouch”).

tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. landing net

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“peg”).[1]

tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them
  2. the action of scutching the flax
  3. a reunion for scutching the flax

tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. (mildly derogatory) tavern

tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. twait shad (Alosa fallax)
  2. allis shad (Alosa alosa)

tasca

  1. inflection of tascar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “tascar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Compare Italian tasca, German Tasche, Danish taske, Czech taška.

tasca (plural tascas)

  1. pocket
  2. bag

From Frankish *taskā, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *das-, *des- (“to fray”).

tasca f (plural tasche)

  1. pocket
    Le penne spia possono essere facilmente agganciate alla tasca della giacca o della camicia, e nessuno sospetterà nulla.
    Pen voice recorders can be easily clipped onto your jacket or shirt pocket and no one will suspect anything.
    • 1995, “Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino”, in Montgolfières, performed by Gianmaria Testa:
      Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino / dentro la tasca ti porterei / nel fazzoletto di cotone e profumo / nel fazzoletto ti nasconderei
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin tasca.

tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. sack, pouch
  2. pocket
  3. (historical) the right of champart

From tascar (“to nibble”).

tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. restaurant
  2. bar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tasca

  1. inflection of tascar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Deverbal from tascar (“to scutch; to nibble”); see also Portuguese tasca.

tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. bar; inn; drinking hole

tasca

  1. inflection of tascar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative