Noun: rienda
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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Desý tomó el cavallo por la rienda, que era muy bueno, e fuélo dar a Esmeré. E Esmeré cavalgó luego e tóvogelo en muy grant merçet, e aguyjó por ese canpo. Grant pavor ovieron griegos quando lo vieron a cavallo. (Desy took the horse by its reins, as it was very good, and went to give it to Esmere. And Esmere mounted it right away, thanking him greatly, and rode it through the field. The Greeks were in great fear when they saw him on a horse.) [ca. 1300-1325, anonymous, Cuento muy fermoso de Otas de Roma (ed. by Herbert L. Baird, Jr., 1976, Madrid: Real Academia Española)]
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E desque el cuerpo del Cid dél descavalgaron, nunca ombre lo cavalgó y siempre lo llevavan al agua por la rienda. (And since the body of the Cid was unmounted [from the horse], no one ever rode it again, taking it to water by the reins [and bridle].) [1498, anonymous, Crónica del Çid Ruy Díaz chap. 66 (ed. by Nieves Baranda, 1995, Madrid: Turner Libros)]
Nouns inflected like rienda
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Early Medieval Latin retina (via */ˈrɛd(e)na/, a noun derived from Latin retinēre (“hold back, restrain”), with metathesis of /dn/ (compare Spanish candado < *cadnado < Latin catēnātum). Compare Portuguese rédea. See: Portuguese Nouns '
rédea'.
Verbs referencing "rienda"
Spanish Nouns
rienda.
Translations