cincho

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese *çinllo (çinlla attested since the 13th century), from Latin cingulum.

Alternative forms

• zuncho

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθint͡ʃo̝/, (western) /ˈsint͡ʃo̝/

Noun

cincho m (plural cinchos)

1. iron girdle, belt, hoop or clamp

Derived terms

• cincha (“girth”)

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

cincho

1. first-person singular present indicative of cinchar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθint͡ʃo/ [ˈθĩnʲ.t͡ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsint͡ʃo/ [ˈsĩnʲ.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -intʃo
• Syllabification: cin‧cho

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cingulum, through a syncopated Vulgar Latin form *cinglum, with palatalization of the 'l'. However, this phonetic evolution for Spanish presents difficulties to some linguists, who prefer a Vulgar Latin form *cīnctulum, influenced by cīnctum, the supine of the related verb cingō (or possibly a derivation from cīnctum or cīnctus itself). Doublet of cello (“hoop used to hold together staves in a barrel”), ceño (“circle or hoop that girds or surrounds something”), and cejo (“binding of esparto grass used to secure bundles”), which were also inherited or came from dialectal variants undergoing different sound changes and slightly different semantic developments; also doublet of cíngulo (“belt or girdle used by priests”), which was a later borrowing.

Noun

cincho m (plural cinchos)

1. belt

   Synonym: cinturón

2. girdle

   Synonym: faja

Related terms

• cincha

 

Descendants

• → Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec: síncho

Etymology 2

Verb

cincho

1. first-person singular present indicative of cinchar

Further reading

• “cincho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014