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Spanish
Etymology
First mentioned in 1915, alongside the less common variant cenceñada (“hearfrost”). A theory points at a back-formation from earlier *recencellada (“hearfrost”) (1894, only found in Luis Maldonado), from recencio (“a north-west wind; hearfrost”), either from cierzo (“a north-west wind”) or from Latin recēns (“fresh”), or, according to RAE, directly from cierzo (“a north-west wind”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ada
- Syllabification: cen‧ce‧lla‧da
Noun
cencellada f (plural cencelladas)
- (chiefly Salamanca) hoarfrost
- Synonym: escarcha
1951, Luis Ceballos Fernández de Córdoba, Francisco Ortuño Medina, “Descripción fisiográfica” (chapter II), in Estudio sobre la vegetación y flora forestal de las Canarias Occidentales, Madrid: Ministerio de Agricultura, page 87:Otra forma importante de precipitación, no registrada por el pluviómetro, es la cenceñada o cencellada, que a veces adquiere extraordinaria importancia al cubrir las retamas de una espesa capa de hielo. También hay que tener en cuenta las nieblas húmedas.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1989, Paloma Sánchez-Garnica, “Monasterio de San Pedro. Condado de Montmerle, diciembre del año 847”, in El alma de las piedras:A su alrededor, la desolación invernal era absoluta, la cencellada parecía haberlo congelado todo y dejado un paisaje estático en el que despuntaban algunos enebros y espinos cubiertos por la escarcha.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- ^ José de Lamano y Beniete (1915) “cencellada, f.”, in El dialecto vulgar salmantino (in Spanish), Salamanca: Tipografía popular, page 331
- ^ V. García de Diego (July-September 1928) “Etimología idealista”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume XV, number 3, pages 232-233
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