Galician edit

 
Rye bread in Chaves, Portugal

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese centẽo, from Latin centēnus (a hundred things), from centum (a hundred), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Portuguese centeio, Spanish centeno.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /θenˈteo̝/, /θenˈtew/, (western) /senˈteo̝/

Noun edit

centeo m (uncountable)

  1. rye (grass or its grains as food)
    • 1269, Miguel Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 928:
      duas tercias de centeo et ha hua de serodeo et hun sesteiro de triigo
      two thirds of rye and one of late cereal and a sixth of wheat

Adjective edit

centeo (feminine centea, masculine plural centeos, feminine plural centeas)

  1. of rye

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • centeo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • centeo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • centeo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • centeo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • centeo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.