centeo

centeo

Galician

Rye bread in Chaves, Portugal

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese *centẽo, from Latin centēnus (“a hundred things”), from centum (“a hundred”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. Cognate with Portuguese centeio, Spanish centeno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θenˈteo̝/, /θenˈtew/, (western) /senˈteo̝/

Noun

centeo m (uncountable)

1. rye (grass or its grains as food)
   • 1269, Miguel Romaní Martínez (ed.), La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira. Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 928:

     duas tercias de centeo et ha hua de serodeo et hun sesteiro de triigo

     two thirds of rye and one of late cereal and a sixth of wheat

Adjective

centeo m (feminine singular centea, masculine plural centeos, feminine plural centeas)

1. of rye

Derived terms

• centeal
• Centeais
• Centeáns
• Centeás
• pancenteo
• Pancenteo

References

• “centeo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “centeo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “centeo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “centeo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “centeo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.