cendal

Galician

Etymology

Unknown: from Old Galician-Portuguese çendal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from the same origin that Old French cendal; perhaps from Latin sindon (“muslin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θenˈdal/

Noun

cendal m (plural cendais)

1. (historical) sendal (a light silk cloth)
   • 1361, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 92:

     Iten, mando vender a miña cóffea do çendal e hua maça d'açeyro et se meta en missas por miña alma

     Item, I order that they should sell my sendal coif and a steel mace, to be put in masses for my soul

2. (regional) sieve

References

• “çendal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “çendal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cendal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cendal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Spanish

Noun

cendal m (plural cendales)

1. sendal

Further reading

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