cendra

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cinerem (compare Occitan cendre, French cendre, Italian cenere, Spanish ceniza), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛn.dɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɛn.dɾa]

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Noun

cendra f (plural cendres)

1. ash

Derived terms

• cendrer

Noun

cendra m (uncountable)

1. ash (color)

Further reading

• “cendra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cendra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cendra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cendra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.dʁa/
• Homophones: cendras, cendrât

Verb

cendra

1. third-person singular past historic of cendrer

Further reading

• “cendra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

From a bad lecture of an 18th century author by a 19th century lexicographer; later incorporated into several 19th and 20th century dictionaries, and subsequently acquiring some minor literary use.

Noun

cendra f (plural cendras)

1. (literary, proscribed) darkness

References

• “cendra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cendra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Spanish

Verb

cendra

1. inflection of cendrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative