# cinto
## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinto (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cinctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈθinto̝/, (western) /ˈsinto̝/

### Noun

cinto m (plural cintos)
* belt

#### Related terms

* cinta
* cintura
* cinturón

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cinto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cinto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cinto”, 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), “cinto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cinto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃin.to/
* Rhymes: -into
* Hyphenation: cìn‧to

### Etymology 1

From Latin cinctus.

#### Participle

cinto (feminine cinta, masculine plural cinti, feminine plural cinte)
* past participle of cingere

#### Noun

cinto m (plural cinti)
* truss
* belt, girdle
* wall

##### Derived terms

* cinto di Venere
* cinto erniario
* cinto pelvico
* cinto verginale
* cinto di castità
* cintura di castità

##### Related terms

* cinta
* cintura
* recinto

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cinto
* first-person singular present indicative of cintare

### Anagrams

* Conti, conti, ctoni, nicto-

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cinto (“belt”), from Latin cinctus (“girdle, belt”), past participle cingō (“to surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsĩ.tu/
* Rhymes: -ĩtu
* Homophone: sinto
* Hyphenation: cin‧to

#### Noun

cinto m (plural cintos)
* belt (band worn around the waist)
    Synonyms: cinta, (especially a large belt or tool belt) cinturão
* belt; band (any strip used to hold something in position)
    Synonyms: cinta, faixa
* Ellipsis of cinto de segurança.

##### Derived terms

* cinto de segurança

##### Related terms

* cingir
* cintada
* cintar
* cinteiro
* cintilho
* cintura

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cinto
* first-person singular present indicative of cintar

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cinctus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθinto/ [ˈθĩn̪.t̪o]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsinto/ [ˈsĩn̪.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -into
* Syllabification: cin‧to

### Noun

cinto m (plural cintos)
* belt
    Synonym: cinturón

#### Related terms

* ceñir
* cincho
* cinta
* cintero
* cintura
* cinturón

### Further reading

* “cinto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10