cendal

Unknown:^[1] from Old Galician-Portuguese çendal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from the same origin that Old French cendal; perhaps from Latin sindon (“muslin”).

• IPA^(key): /θenˈdal/

cendal m (plural cendais)

1. (historical) sendal (a light silk cloth)
   • 1361, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 92:

     Iten, mando vender a miña cóffea do çendal e hua maça d'açeyro et se meta en missas por miña alma

     Item, I order that they should sell my sendal coif and a steel mace, to be put in masses for my soul

2. (regional) sieve

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “çendal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “çendal”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cendal”, 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), “cendal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /θenˈdal/ [θẽn̪ˈd̪al] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /senˈdal/ [sẽn̪ˈd̪al] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cen‧dal

cendal m (plural cendales)

1. sendal
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 192:

     Las ánimas se aparecen, de preferencia, envueltas en cendales blancos, vaporosos, impalpables.

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• “cendal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025