cingle

From Middle English sengle, from Old French sengle, cengle (Modern French sangle), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum (“girdle”), from cingere (“to gird”). Doublet of cinch. Compare also Middle English kyngle, kyngll (“girdle, brooch”) from Old Norse kinga (“brooch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
• Homophone: single

cingle (plural cingles)

1. A kind of belt or other girdle.
   • 1990, Guy Davenport, The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers:

     A triangle of arcs, her slip, flag red, and her friend with a swimmer’s back and saucery hollows in his solidly boxed buttocks was cupped into a gauze pouch and cingle.

Inherited from Latin cingulum (“girdle”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsiŋ.ɡlə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈsiŋ.ɡle]

cingle m (plural cingles)

1. crag, cliff

   espadat

• timba

• “cingle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃ɡl/

From Latin cingula, cingulum (“girdle”).

cingle m (plural cingles)

1. (geography) meander

   Synonyms: sinuosité, méandre

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cingle

1. inflection of cingler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cingle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cligne, cligné

cingle

1. inflection of cinglar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative