forqueta

forqueta f (plural forquetes)

1. pitchfork
2. wooden pole, stake
3. a forked wooden post used to support the branches of fruit trees
4. (obsolete) fork

   Synonym: tenedor

From forca +‎ -eta.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [furˈkɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [forˈkə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [foɾˈke.ta]

forqueta f (plural forquetes)

1. fork, fourchette

• (cutlery): forquilla

• “forqueta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• furqueta

Attested since the 15th century. From forca (“pitchfork”) +‎ -eta.

• IPA^(key): /foɾˈketa/ [foɾˈke.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: for‧que‧ta

forqueta m (plural forquetas)

1. pole, stake
   • 1427, M. Mar Graña Cid (ed.), Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500). Separata de Estudios Mindonienses, page 308:

     Et auemos uos a dar para la dita vinna duzentos linoos et çen pees de vinna et dose par et hun de brancas para hun çento de forquetas para reparamento dela

     And we shall give to you, for said vineyard, two hundred strings and a hundred vines and twelve pairs and one of white coinage for a hundred stakes for repairment of it

   Synonyms: estaca, forca

2. small pitchfork

   Synonyms: forca, forcada

3. fork

   Synonym: garfo

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “forqueta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “forqueta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “forqueta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “forqueta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Spanish forca +‎ -eta, the first element from Latin furca. Doublet of horqueta, if not simply the obsolete version of it. Compare French fourchette.

• IPA^(key): /foɾˈketa/ [foɾˈke.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: for‧que‧ta

forqueta f (plural forquetas)

1. (dated) fork

   Synonym: tenedor

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