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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cĩisa, from Vulgar Latin root *cinisia, from Latin cinis.
Noun
cinsa f (plural cinsas)
- ash, ashes
- Synonyms: borralla, borrallo
- ashes, cremated remains
1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 679:Desí collerõ a çĩjnsa del, et guardárõna muy bem et moyto honrradament en hũa caseta d'ouro muy rrica et moy noble que acharã ẽno tesouro del rrey Príamo.- Then they took their ashes and put them very well and very honourably in a very rich and noble little house of gold that they had found in king Priam's treasury
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ciinsa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “jnsa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cinsa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cinsa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cinza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN