cendra

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• cenra (Eastern Aragonese)
• cenisa
• ceniza

Etymology

From Latin cinis (“cold ashes”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθendɾa/
• Rhymes: -endɾa
• Syllabification: cen‧dra

Noun

cendra f

1. ash, cinder (Eastern Aragonese)

Further reading

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cinerem. Compare Aragonese cendra/cenra/cenisa, 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

• acendrar
• cendrada
• cendrar
• cendrejar
• cendrer
• cendrera
• cendrós
• encendrar

 

Noun

cendra m (uncountable)

1. ash (color)

Derived terms

• cendrós

 

Related terms

• cinerari
• cineri
• cinerita
• incinerar

 

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cendra”, 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), “cendra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Spanish

Verb

cendra

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