senra

Inherited from Latin cinerem.

senra f (uncountable)

1. (Benasquese) ashes

• “ceniza”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

• seara

In western Galician, from Old Galician-Portuguese *sẽara; in eastern Galician from senra. Attested in local Medieval Latin documents since the 9th century as senara,^[1] from Paleo-Hispanic *senara, probably a compound of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *senara (“piece of land cultivated on the side”), from *sen- (“separation”) (<< Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”)) + *aryeti (“to plow”).^[2]

Cognate with Portuguese senra, seara and Spanish serna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnra/ [ˈs̺ɛn.rɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛnra

senra f (plural senras)

1. swidden; communal terrain, usually left fallow, undivided and covered by bushes, which is eventually slashed and burned for the temporal production of rye or wheat. alternative form of seara

   Synonyms: cachada, estivada, roza

• Senra

• “senra”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “senra” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “seara”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “senrra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “senra”, 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), “senra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “seara”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

See seara.

• Hyphenation: sen‧ra

senra f (plural senras)

1. alternative form of seara