sinxelo

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Galician

The Galician house of Puerto Rico, to the great poetess Rosalia de Castro, dedicates this sincere/simple homage ("sinxelo homaxe"), 1985

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Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *singellus, from Latin singulus. Compare Portuguese singelo and Spanish sencillo.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sinxelo (feminine sinxela, masculine plural sinxelos, feminine plural sinxelas)

  1. simple
    • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 129:
      Iten, que dían os çapatos de moços e moças de quinse anos fasta viinte, a des mrs, tacoados et sollados et ben apostados et de boo coyro e ben coseytos; et sengellos, a seys mrs.
      Item, they should give the shoes for boys and girls, from fifteen till twenty years old, tacked and soled and corrected and made of good leather and well sewn, at ten maravedis; the simple ones, at six maravedis
    • '1976, Homenaxe a Castelao:
      Castelao era un home sinxelo, esencialmente sinxelo, e o home sinxelo acéitao todo.
      Castelao was a simple man, essentially simple, and the simple man endures everything.
  2. sincere
  3. naive
  4. slender, thin

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References

  • sengel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • sinxelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • sinxelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • sinxelo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.