ceniza

From Vulgar Latin *cinisia, from Latin cinis.

ceniza f (plural cenices)

1. ash (solid remains of a fire)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cinisia, from Latin cinis, from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”). Compare Portuguese cinza, Romanian cenușă.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈniθa/ [θeˈni.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈnisa/ [seˈni.sa]
• (Castilian)

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: ce‧ni‧za

ceniza f (plural cenizas)

1. ash (solid remains of a fire)

• → Papiamentu: shinishi

ceniza f

1. feminine singular of cenizo

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