pincel

Old French

Alternative forms

• pincil

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *penicellum, alteration of Latin pēnicillum.

Noun

pincel oblique singular, m (oblique plural pinceaus or pinceax or pinciaus or pinciax or pincels, nominative singular pinceaus or pinceax or pinciaus or pinciax or pincels, nominative plural pincel)

1. paintbrush

Descendants

• Middle French: pinceau, pincel, pinciau
  • French: pinceau
• → Middle English: pencel, pencell, pensel, pensell, penselle, pincell, pinsel, pynsell
  • English: pencil (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle High German: pinsel
  • German: Pinsel
    • → Danish: pensel
    • → Romanian: pensulă
    • → Serbo-Croatian: penzl / пензл, penzlin / пензлин
  • → Polish: pędzel, pęzeł (Kielce), pęzel (Lasovia)
    • → Belarusian: пэ́ндзаль (péndzalʹ)
    • → Russian: бе́нзель (bénzelʹ)
    • → Ukrainian: пе́нзель (pénzelʹ)
• →? Sicilian: pinzeḍḍu

Portuguese

pincéis

Etymology

From Catalan pinzell (“paintbrush”), from Latin pēnicillum (“paintbrush”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pĩˈsɛw/ [pĩˈsɛʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pĩˈsɛl/ [pĩˈsɛɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pĩˈsɛl/ [pĩˈsɛɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pĩˈsɛ.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: pin‧cel

Noun

pincel m (plural pincéis)

1. paintbrush
2. Ellipsis of pincel de maquiagem (“makeup brush”)

Derived terms

• pincel atômico
• pincel-de-estudante
• pincelar
• pinceleiro
• pincelzinho

Related terms

• pincelada
• pincelagem

Descendants

• → Tetum: pinsél

Further reading

• “pincel”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pincel”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan pinzell (“paintbrush”), from Latin pēnicillum (“paintbrush”). Cognate with English pencil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pinˈθel/ [pĩn̟ˈθel]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pinˈsel/ [pĩnˈsel]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: pin‧cel

Noun

pincel m (plural pinceles)

1. paintbrush (usually thinner than a brocha)

Related terms

• pincelada
• pincelar

Further reading

• “pincel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10