encienso

encienso

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin incēnsus, from incendō (“set on fire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ẽnˈt͡sjẽn.so]

Noun

encienso m (plural enciensos)

1. incense
   • c. 1200: Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 23r.

     dixo nŕo seńor amoẏſen dia eleaçar fijo de aaronel el ſaçerdot q́ alce los enſençarios détre los q́mados e ſera en la obra del ara por remébráça afijos iſrael q́ nó ſe aguen aoḿe q nó ſea delinage. daaron por encenſar el encienſo delant el ſeńor.

     And Our Lord said unto Moses, “Tell the priest Eleazar son of Aaron to take up the censers out of the burning and to place them over the altar as a memorial to the children of Israel that they should draw no man that is not of the seed of Aaron to cense incense before the Lord.”

   • Idem, f. 56v.

     […] e clamolos aſemblant de los prícebs de ſodoma el pueblo de gomorra. e dixo non adugades mas ſacrificios de uanidad uŕos encéſos uŕos cabos de lunes e uŕos ſabbados q́ clamades nó los entendrá có ſo coraçó […]

     […] and he convened the assembly of the princes of Sodom and the city of Gomorrah, and he said, “Offer no more sacrifices in vanity; your incenses, your new moons and the Sabbaths you convene you will not understand with your heart […]”

Related terms

• encensar
• encensario

Descendants

• Spanish: incienso