encienso

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin incēnsus, from incendō (“set on fire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enˈt͡sjenso/

Noun

encienso m (plural enciensos)

1. incense
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 23r:

     dixo nr̃o señor amoẏſen dia eleaçar fijo de aaronel el ſaçerdot q̃ alce los enſençarios dẽtre los q̃mados e ſera en la obra del ara por remẽbrãça afijos iſrael q̃ nõ ſe aguen aom̃e q nõ ſea delinage. daaron por encenſar el encienſo delant el ſeñor.

     And Our Lord said unto Moses, “Tell the priest Eleazar son of Aaron to take up the censers out of the burning and to place them over the altar as a memorial to the children of Israel that they should draw no man that is not of the seed of Aaron to cense incense before the Lord.”

   • Idem, f. 56v.

     […] e clamolos aſemblant de los prĩcebs de ſodoma el pueblo de gomorra. e dixo non adugades mas ſacrificios de uanidad ur̃os encẽſos ur̃os cabos de lunes e ur̃os ſabbados q̃ clamades nõ los entendrã cõ ſo coraçõ […]

     […] and he convened the assembly of the princes of Sodom and the city of Gomorrah, and he said, “Offer no more sacrifices in vanity; your incenses, your new moons and the Sabbaths you convene you will not understand with your heart […]”

Related terms

• encensar
• encensario

Descendants

• Spanish: incienso