cincha
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)
- 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
Related 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.
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cincho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Verb
cincha
- inflection of cinchar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- 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)
Related terms
Verb
cincha
- inflection of cinchar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cincha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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