cinza

• cinsa

From Old Galician-Portuguese cĩisa, from Vulgar Latin root *cinisia, from Latin cinis.

cinza f (plural cinzas)

1. Alternative form of cinsa

• “cinza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cinza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cinza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Galician-Portuguese cĩisa (“ashes”), from a Vulgar Latin root *cinisia (“ashes (cold or warm)”), from Latin cinis (“cold ashes”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”).

Cognate with Galician cinza, Spanish ceniza and Romanian cenușă.

• Hyphenation: cin‧za

cinza m or f (plural cinzas)

1. grey

cinza f (plural cinzas)

1. ash, ashes

• cinzas

cinza m (plural cinzas)

1. grey (colour)