cinta

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsin.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsin.ta/

Noun

cinta f (plural cintes)

1. ribbon (a long, narrow strip of material used for decoration)

   Synonym: veta

2. strip, band (a long, thin piece of any material)

   Synonym: tira

3. belt (a device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon)
4. video film

   Synonyms: film, pel·lícula

5. (gymnastics) ribbon
6. finishing line ribbon in a race
7. police stripe closing a perimeter
8. ribbon (an inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer)
9. (botany) spider plant
10. red bandfish

    Synonyms: codornera, veta

11. (fishing) a kind of net that is set vertically in the sea
12. (fishing) a kind of boat using such a vertical net

Derived terms

• cinta adhesiva (adhesive tape)
• cinta aïllant (electrical insulant tape)
• cinta de cap
• cinta de carda (a spiked band in a card sliver)
• cinta de tinta (ink ribbon)
• cinta magnètica (magnetic tape)
• cinta mètrica (measuring tape)
• cinta perforada (punched paper tape)
• cinta transportadora (conveyor belt)

Related terms

• cenyir
• cintura

Further reading

• “cinta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cinta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “cinta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cinta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinta (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθinta̝/, (western) /ˈsinta̝/

Noun

cinta f (plural cintas)

1. band; ribbon

   Synonym: fita

   • 1347, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 280:

     It. mando que todas las doas que eu ouuer a o tempo de miña morte assy adubos de panos como yrilandas [grilandas] e relicas [pelicas] e cintas e outras qualesquer doas que eu aia e sse pola uentura estouuere delas ou todas en penora mando que sse tiren e sse den a o prior ffrey Johan nunes con todos los panos de uestir

     Item: I order that every trinket that I may have at the time of my death, either clothing ornaments, as well as garlands, pelts, ribbons, and any other trinket that I may have -and in case that they were pawned I command that they should be redeemed- and they should give them to the prior, the friar Johan Nunes, with all of my clothes

   • 1375, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:

     It. enna mia hucha que se no Tesouro I cinta de prata de pano de seda verde et outra cinta ancha de prata gornida de prata en coyro de lobo.

     Item: in my chest which in inside the treasury, a silver band made of green silk cloth, and another band embroidered in silver made of wolf's hide

2. iron rim or tyre of a cart's wheel

   Synonyms: canterla, ferra, lamia

3. (nautical) upper board of the planking of a ship
4. hoop (of a barrel)
5. reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)

Related terms

• cinguir
• cinto
• cintura

References

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cinta, from Sanskrit चिन्ता (cintā, “thinking, sad, care, anxiety, consideration”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɪn.ta]
• Hyphenation: cin‧ta

Verb

cinta

1. love, like

   Aku cinta kamu. ― I love you.

2. (obsolete) worry

Adverb

cinta

1. hopefully

Coordinate terms

• kasih (“love; care; affection”)
• sayang (“love; darling; sweetheart”)

Derived terms

• bercinta
• bercinta-cintaan
• bercintakan
• kecintaan
• mencinta
• mencintai
• mencintakan
• pencinta
• percintaan
• tercinta

 

• cinta bebas
• cinta buta
• cinta kiamat
• cinta kilat
• cinta monyet
• cinta open
• cinta pragma

 

• budak cinta

 

Further reading

• “cinta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ta/
• Rhymes: -inta
• Hyphenation: cìn‧ta

Etymology 1

From Latin cincta.

Noun

cinta f (plural cinte)

1. walls surrounding a city, castle etc.
2. fence surrounding a garden etc.
3. perimeter of grounds
4. belt
5. rampart

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cinta

1. inflection of cintare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• canti, tinca

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit चिन्ता (cintā).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /tʃintə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /tʃinta/
• Rhymes: -ta

Noun

cinta (Jawi spelling چينتا‎, plural cinta-cinta, informal 1st possessive cintaku, 2nd possessive cintamu, 3rd possessive cintanya)

1. feeling of love; strong attachment towards something
   • 2005, A. Samad Said, A. Samad Said: Sebuah antologi puisi yang menghimpunkan karya-karya selama setengah abad [A. Samad Said: An anthology of poems assembled from works spanning half a century], Utusan Publications, page 253:

     Cinta dan sejarah; mencakar langsir dan mencekau pintunya; menyembur bara mantera.

     Love and history; scrapes the curtain and claws the door; casts a turbulent spell.

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Regular affixed derivations:

• cintakan (“to love sth or sb”) [causative benefactive] (-kan)
• bercinta (“to be in love”) [stative / habitual] (beR-)
• bercintakan (“to be in love with sth or sb”) [stative / habitual + causative benefactive] (beR- + -kan)
• mencinta (“to put love into sth or sb”) [agent focus] (meN-)
• mencintai (“to love sth or sb”) [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
• tercinta (“most loved; beloved”) [agentless action] (teR-)
• kecintaan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
• percintaan (“love affair”) [causative passive + repetition / reciprocity] (peR- + -an)
• pencinta (“lover”) [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)

Related terms

• kasih (“love; care; affection”)
• sayang (“love; darling; sweetheart”)
• kasih sayang (“unconditional love; affection”)

Verb

cinta

1. to love

   aku cinta padamu. ― I love you.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsĩ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ĩtɐ
• Homophone: sinta
• Hyphenation: cin‧ta

Noun

cinta f (plural cintas)

1. belt (band worn around the waist)

   Synonym: cinto

2. band (strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together)

   Synonyms: banda, faixa

Related terms

• cintura

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cincta, plural of cinctum, variant of cinctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθinta/ [ˈθĩn̪.t̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsinta/ [ˈsĩn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -inta
• Syllabification: cin‧ta

Noun

cinta f (plural cintas)

1. ribbon, worn by girls in the hair
2. tape
3. Ellipsis of cinta de/para correr.; treadmill
4. (film) Ellipsis of cinta cinematográfica.; film

   Synonym: película

   • 2020 June 14, Elvira Lindo, “¡Señorita Escarlata, señorita Escarlata!”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Así fue, por ejemplo, en El nacimiento de una nación (1915) de Griffith, la película fundacional del séptimo arte. Sería impensable hablar de las innovaciones de esa cinta, de su osadía visual, y no nombrar la influencia decisiva que tuvo en los linchamientos del Ku Klux Klan.

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Derived terms

• cinta adhesiva
• cinta adhesiva protectora
• cinta aisladora
• cinta aislante
• cinta americana
• cinta de aislar
• cinta de carrocero
• cinta de correr (“treadmill”) (Spain)
• cinta de embalaje
• cinta de embalar
• cinta de enmascarar
• cinta de goma
• cinta de Möbius
• cinta de pintor
• cinta de seguridad (“security tape, surveillance tape, security footage”)
• cinta de vídeo
• cinta eléctrica
• cinta escocesa
• cinta express
• cinta magnética
• cinta métrica
• cinta para correr (“treadmill”)
• cinta plástica
• cinta plateada
• cinta Scotch
• cinta transportadora
• portacintas
• sierra de cinta

 

Related terms

• cincha
• cincho
• cinto m
• cintura f
• cinturón m

 

See also

• franja f

Further reading

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