Where does “bouça” come from?

bouça (Portuguese) comes from Old Portuguese bouça, from Latin baltea, from Latin balteus — A belt, girdle.

bouça (Portuguese): fallow

Definitions

  1. fallow

Ancestry of “bouça”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesebouça—
2Latinbaltea—
3LatinbalteusA belt, girdle
Every word from Latin balteus →Every word from Latin baltea →Every word from Old Portuguese bouça →