cincha

Aragonese

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin cingulum.

Noun

cincha f

  1. belt

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese çinlla (attested since the 13th century), from Latin cingula.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθint͡ʃa̝/, (western) /ˈsint͡ʃa̝/

Noun

cincha f (plural cinchas)

  1. girth
    Synonym: cenlla
    • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 112:
      Et tãto era o sangue dos mouros que y morrerõ que nadauã os caualos en el ata as çenllas.
      And so much was the blood of the Moors that died there that the horses swam in it till their girths
Derived terms
  • cincho (girdle, hoop, clamp)

References

  • çinlla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • inll” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • cincha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • cincha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • cincha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cincho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Verb

cincha

  1. inflection of cinchar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθint͡ʃa/ [ˈθĩnʲ.t͡ʃa]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsint͡ʃa/ [ˈsĩnʲ.t͡ʃa]
  • Rhymes: -intʃa
  • Syllabification: cin‧cha

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cingla, syncopated form of Latin cingula. Doublet of cencha. Cf. also the related cincho.

Noun

cincha f (plural cinchas)

  1. girth (for horses or similar animals)
  2. (climbing) sling
    Synonym: eslinga

Verb

cincha

  1. inflection of cinchar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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