recencio

First attested c. 1550. Either from cierzo (“a north-west wind”) or from Latin recēns (“fresh”).

• IPA^(key): /reˈθenθjo/ [reˈθẽn̟.θjo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /reˈsensjo/ [reˈsẽn.sjo] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -enθjo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -ensjo (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: re‧cen‧cio

recencio m (plural recencios)

1. (chiefly Salamanca) synonym of cierzo (a north-west wind)
   • c. 1550, Juan Arce de Otálora, Coloquios de Palatino y Pinciano, Spain:

     PALATINO […] Estémonos quedos hasta que amanezca, que este sereno y recencio o rocío de la noche nos podrá hacer daño.

     PALATINO […] Let's stay still until dawn, for the dew and fresh wind [or dew] will make us sick.

   • 1607, Christoval de Messa [i.e., Cristóbal de Mesa], “Libro primero”, in La restavracion de España, Madrid: Iuan de la Cueſta, folio 12, verse 70:

     Era la noche en ſazon que al mundo
     Baxa del cielo el humedo recencio,
     Y eſtan todos en ſueño mas profundo,
     En dulce oluido, y placido ſilencio:

     It was the night in which seasonably to the world
     comes down from the sky the humid fresh air,
     And everyone is in a deeper sleep,
     In sweet oblivion, and placid silence:

   • 1894, Luis Maldonado, Las querellas del ciego de Robliza, page 38:

     Vienen los amaneceres de que no podéis gozar, porque traen siempre recencio y vus podéis costipar.

     Those mornings you can't enjoy are approaching, as they always come with fresh wind and you might get blocked up.

   • 1902, José María Gabriel y Galán, “Cara al cielo”, in Extremeñas:

     y aguantal con el cuerpo el recencio
     de por las mañanas;

     and bodily put up with the north-west win
     that blows in the mornings;

   • 1911 June, José Sánchez Rojas, “Salamanca”, in La España moderna, number 273, Madrid, page 54:

     Iglesias de la Casa, preocupado en salir del callejón de sus achaques, luchando á puñadas con la vida ingrata, con un temperamento pobre, que no puede soportar el frescor del alba ni el recencio de la noche;

     Iglesias de la Casa, worried about getting out of the road of his ailments, fighting with punchs against the ungrateful life, with poor temperament, unable to bear with dawn's coolness nor with night's north-west wind;

2. (chiefly Salamanca) rime; frost; hoar frost

• “recencio”, 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