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Etymology
Inherited from Latin cinerem (compare Occitan cendre, French cendre, Italian cenere, Spanish ceniza), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cendra f (plural cendres)
- ash
Derived terms
Noun
cendra m (uncountable)
- ash (color)
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
Verb
cendra
- third-person singular past historic of cendrer
Further reading
Galician
Etymology
From a bad lecture of an 18th century author by a 19th century lexicographer; later incorporated into several 19th and 20th century dictionaries, and subsequently acquiring some minor literary use.
Noun
cendra f (plural cendras)
- (literary, proscribed) darkness
References
- “cendra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cendra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- ^ Pensado, José Luis (1976) “cendra”, in Contribución a la crítica de la lexicografía gallega I (Acta Salmanticensia. Filosofia y Letras.; 98), Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca, →ISBN
Spanish
Verb
cendra
- inflection of cendrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative