centeo

Galician

Rye bread in Chaves, Portugal

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese centẽo, from Latin centēnus (“a hundred things”), from centum (“a hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Portuguese centeio, Spanish centeno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θenˈteo̝/, /θenˈtew/, (western) /senˈteo̝/

Noun

centeo m (uncountable)

1. rye (grass or its grains as food)
   • 1269, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 928:

     duas tercias de centeo et ha hua de serodeo et hun sesteiro de triigo

     two thirds of rye and one of late cereal and a sixth of wheat

Adjective

centeo (feminine centea, masculine plural centeos, feminine plural centeas)

1. of rye

Derived terms

• Centeais
• centeal
• Centeáns
• Centeás
• pancenteo
• Pancenteo

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “centeo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “centeo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “centeo”, 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), “centeo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “centeo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN