pincel
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pincéis
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *penicellum, alteration of Latin pēnicillum.
Noun
pincel oblique singular, m (oblique plural pinceaus or pinceax or pinciaus or pinciax or pincels, nominative singular pinceaus or pinceax or pinciaus or pinciax or pincels, nominative plural pincel)
Descendants
- Middle French: pinceau, pincel, pinciau
- French: pinceau
- → Middle English: pencel, pencell, pensel, pensell, penselle, pincell, pinsel, pynsell
- English: pencil (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle High German: pinsel
- →? Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu
Portuguese
Etymology
From Catalan pinzell (“paintbrush”), from Latin pēnicillum (“paintbrush”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pincel m (plural pincéis)
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Catalan pinzell (“paintbrush”), from Latin pēnicillum (“paintbrush”). Cognate with English pencil.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /pinˈθel/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pinˈsel/
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: pin‧cel
Noun
pincel m (plural pinceles)
- paintbrush (usually thinner than a brocha)
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Further reading
- “pincel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10