centeo

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Galician

Rye bread in Chaves, Portugal

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese centẽo, from Latin centēnus (a hundred things), from centum (a hundred), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Portuguese centeio, Spanish centeno.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θenˈteo̝/, /θenˈtew/, (western) /senˈteo̝/

Noun

centeo m (uncountable)

  1. rye (grass or its grains as food)
    • 1269, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 928:
      duas tercias de centeo et ha hua de serodeo et hun sesteiro de triigo
      two thirds of rye and one of late cereal and a sixth of wheat

Adjective

centeo (feminine centea, masculine plural centeos, feminine plural centeas)

  1. of rye

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