senra

Inherited from Latin cinerem.

senra f (uncountable)

1. (Benasquese) ashes

• “ceniza”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• seara

In western Galician, from Old Galician-Portuguese *sẽara; in eastern Galician from senra. Attested in local Medieval Latin documents since the 9th century as senara,[1] from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *senara, probably a compound of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *senara (“piece of land cultivated on the side”), from *sen- (“separation”) (<< Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”)) + *aryeti (“to plow”).[2]

Cognate with Portuguese senra, seara and Spanish serna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnra̝/

senra f (plural senras)

1. swidden; communal terrain, usually left fallow, undivided and covered by bushes, which is eventually slashed and burned for the temporal production of rye or wheat. Alternative form of seara

   Synonyms: cachada, estivada, roza

• Senra

• “seara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “senrra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “senra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “senra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “seara” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

See seara.

• Hyphenation: sen‧ra

senra f (plural senras)

1. Alternative form of seara