cenza
Galician
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin salientia (“springing forth, flowing down”). Compare Catalan sallent.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcenza f (plural cenzas)
- waterfall
- 2004, José Rodríguez Cruz, Trazos sobre a vestimenta tradicional no surleste de Ourense, Ourense: Deputación Provincial, page 145:
- hai outros pequenos regueiros que baixan polas petas ladeiras formando fermosas fervenzas, aquí denominadas cenzas
- there are other streams flowing down by the slopes and forming picturesque waterfalls, locally called cenzas
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cenza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cenza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cenza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN