finca
Americannoun
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fincas
plural
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Etymology
Origin of finca
First recorded in 1905–10; from Spanish: literally, “property, real estate, farm” (apparently originally, “amount left over”; hence, “a sum of money,” becoming “income from a property,” finally becoming “the property (itself),” derivative of Old Spanish fincar “to remain,” stative derivative of fincar ( Spanish hincar ) “to drive in, fix, sink (a nail),” alteration of ficar (from unattested Vulgar Latin fīgicāre, for Latin fīgere “to fasten”), with -n- perhaps from dialect finsar “to mark out” (ultimately from Medieval Latin fīxāre; cf. fix, fichu ( def. ) )
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“But this was in the countryside, in a finca, in La Vega, Manguito. And ever since then I have dreamed a lot about flying.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
“We’ve been looking for our finca for how long now?”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
In the first chapter, Basch and Berry are staying at their Costa Rican finca, and Basch requires stitches from a Tica physician.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
At the finca, scholars say, Hemingway put final touches on "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and penned his comeback, Pulitzer-winning and Nobel-clinching Cuban fisherman's saga, "The Old Man and the Sea," among other works.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018
There was a part of him that could never leave the finca or the comfort of its cycles, and this diminished him for any other life.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
Some of his 50-odd cattle ranches and 45 coffee fincas he got by "smart buying."
From Time Magazine Archive
During his time in office, Arbenz emerged as the owner of a $3,000,000 cotton plantation; his Interior Minister turned into a gentleman-farmer with two coffee fincas; another pal acquired two mansions.
From Time Magazine Archive
But go back now to your fincas and your fishing, to your little stores and your humble homes, firmly resolving never to think a bad thought, whether about yourself or your neighbor.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
Almost everyone was off, working in the coffee fincas.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
We measured twenty-seven men, and there were really no more in the town, the rest being away on fincas.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr
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