cinto

See also: cintò and Cinto

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinto (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cinctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθinto̝/, (western) /ˈsinto̝/

Noun

cinto m (plural cintos)

1. belt

Related terms

• cinta
• cintura
• cinturón

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cinto”, 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), “cinto”, 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 Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “cinto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cinto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cinto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.to/
• Rhymes: -into
• Hyphenation: cìn‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin cinctus.

Participle

cinto (feminine cinta, masculine plural cinti, feminine plural cinte)

1. past participle of cingere

Noun

cinto m (plural cinti)

1. truss
2. belt, girdle
3. wall

Derived terms

• cinto di castità
• cinto di Venere
• cinto erniario
• cinto pelvico
• cinto verginale
• cintura di castità

Related terms

• cinta
• cintura
• recinto

Etymology 2

Verb

cinto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cintare

Anagrams

• Conti, conti, ctoni, nicto-

Portuguese

cinto

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinto (“belt”), from Latin cinctus (“girdle, belt”), past participle cingō (“to surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsĩ.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsĩ.tu/

• Rhymes: -ĩtu
• Homophones: Cinto, sinto
• Hyphenation: cin‧to

Noun

cinto m (plural cintos)

1. belt (band worn around the waist)

   Synonyms: cinta, (especially a large belt or tool belt) cinturão

2. belt; band (any strip used to hold something in position)

   Synonyms: cinta, faixa

3. ellipsis of cinto de segurança

Derived terms

• cinto de segurança

Related terms

• cingir
• cintada
• cintar
• cinteiro
• cintilho
• cintura

Etymology 2

Verb

cinto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cintar

Further reading

• “cinto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cinto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin cingō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin cīnctum

Spanish cinto

Inherited from Latin cīnctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθinto/ [ˈθĩn̪.t̪o] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsinto/ [ˈsĩn̪.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -into
• Syllabification: cin‧to

Noun

cinto m (plural cintos)

1. belt

   Synonym: cinturón

Related terms

• ceñir
• cincho
• cinta
• cintero
• cintura
• cinturón

Further reading

• “cinto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025