sinxelo
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Galician
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Placa_na_escultura_a_Rosal%C3%ADa._A_Ferradura._Santiago_de_Compostela._Galiza_2013.jpg/220px-Placa_na_escultura_a_Rosal%C3%ADa._A_Ferradura._Santiago_de_Compostela._Galiza_2013.jpg)
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *singellus, from Latin singulus. Compare Portuguese singelo and Spanish sencillo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sinxelo (feminine sinxela, masculine plural sinxelos, feminine plural sinxelas)
- simple
- 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 129:
- Iten, que dían os çapatos de moços e moças de quinse anos fasta viinte, a des mrs, tacoados et sollados et ben apostados et de boo coyro e ben coseytos; et sengellos, a seys mrs.
- Item, they should give the shoes for boys and girls, from fifteen till twenty years old, tacked and soled and corrected and made of good leather and well sewn, at ten maravedis; the simple ones, at six maravedis
- '1976, Homenaxe a Castelao:
- Castelao era un home sinxelo, esencialmente sinxelo, e o home sinxelo acéitao todo.
- Castelao was a simple man, essentially simple, and the simple man endures everything.
- sincere
- naive
- slender, thin
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sengel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sinxelo”, 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), “sinxelo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sinxelo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Categories:
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Galician terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician adjectives
- Galician terms with quotations