Meaning of esculca | Babel Free

Definitions

1. inquiry
   feminine
2. report
   feminine
3. spy
   archaic, feminine
4. Equivalent to 'inquiry': The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.

Equivalents

Examples

“vendo aí tantos homes de testa, capaces d'abranguer moito e ben, que puderan facer esculcas e recoller as cantigas i os contos de cada eido”

seeing so many intelligent, capable men who could undertake a lot ably, who could make enquiries and recollect the songs and the tales of every place [of Galicia]

“e achara a Johán Rramallo [...] que leuaua hũu ljmoeyro çebtý que avía arrĩcado da orta [...] e que Afonso Rrodriges Vimyeiro dera a esculca del a seu dono”

and that he found Xoán Ramallo … who took away a lemon tree that he had pulled out from the garden … and that Afonso Rodríguez Vimieiro has given a report about him to its proprietor

“Et coydou que era esculca que vĩjña esculcar sua terra, ca Peleus ben sabía que entre elles et troyãos auj́a grã desamor.”

And he thought that he was a spy which has come to investigate their country, because Peleus knew well that in between them and the Trojans there was a large enmity

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