cincha

Ultimately from Latin cingulum.

cincha f

1. belt

From Old Galician çinlla (attested since the 13th century), from Latin cingula.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈθint͡ʃa̝/, (western) /ˈsint͡ʃa̝/

cincha f (plural cinchas)

1. girth
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 112:

     Et tãto era o sangue dos mouros que y morrerõ que nadauã os caualos en el ata as çenllas.

     And so much was the blood of the Moors that died there that the horses swam in it till their girths

   Synonym: cenlla

• cinchar

• cincho (“girdle, hoop, clamp”)

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

From Vulgar Latin *cingla, syncopated form of Latin cingula. Doublet of cencha. Cf. also the related cincho.

cincha f (plural cinchas)

1. girth (for horses or similar animals)
2. (climbing) sling

• cincho

cincha

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

• “cincha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014