cincel
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely from Old French cisel, from cisoir (with a change in suffix), from Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting instrument”), ultimately from Latin caedere (“cut”). The /n/ seems to have been taken from pincel (“paintbrush”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /θinˈθel/ [θĩn̟ˈθel]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sinˈsel/ [sĩnˈsel]
- Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: cin‧cel
Noun
[edit]cincel m (plural cinceles)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cincel”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 83
Further reading
[edit]- “cincel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- “cincel” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.