cinto

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinto (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cinctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθinto̝/, (western) /ˈsinto̝/

cinto m (plural cintos)

1. belt

• cinta
• cintura
• cinturón

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cinto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cinto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cinto”, 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), “cinto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cinto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.to/
• Rhymes: -into
• Hyphenation: cìn‧to

From Latin cinctus.

cinto (feminine cinta, masculine plural cinti, feminine plural cinte)

1. past participle of cingere

cinto m (plural cinti)

1. truss
2. belt, girdle
3. wall

• cinta
• cintura
• recinto

cinto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cintare

• Conti, conti, ctoni, nicto-

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinto (“belt”), from Latin cinctus (“girdle, belt”), past participle cingō (“to surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.

• Rhymes: -ĩtu
• Homophone: sinto
• Hyphenation: cin‧to

cinto m (plural cintos)

1. belt (band worn around the waist)

   Synonyms: cinta, (especially a large belt or tool belt) cinturão

2. belt; band (any strip used to hold something in position)

   Synonyms: cinta, faixa

3. ellipsis of cinto de segurança

• cinto de segurança

cinto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cintar

Inherited from Latin cinctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθinto/ [ˈθĩn̪.t̪o] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsinto/ [ˈsĩn̪.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -into
• Syllabification: cin‧to

cinto m (plural cintos)

1. belt

   Synonym: cinturón

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