Noun: cenisa
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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Blanca es de color. pero poco aſſi que tira a color de ceniſa clara. (It is white in color, but a little, so that its color is more like that of light ashes.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17r:]
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[…] quando la queman ⁊ la fazen ceniſa. todas aquellas colores que mostraua ante la piedra todas pareſcen en la ceniſa despues que es quemada. ([…] when they burn it and turn it to ash, all the colors present before in the stone appear in the ashes after it has been burnt.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 17v.:]
Nouns inflected like cenisa
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
From Vulgar Latin *cinisia, from Latin cinis (“cold ashes”). See: Latin Nouns '
cinis'.
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