cencellada

== Spanish == === Etymology === First mentioned in 1915, alongside the less common variant cenceñada (“hearfrost”). A theory points at a back-formation from earlier *recencellada (“hearfrost”) (1894, only found in Luis Maldonado), from recencio (“a north-west wind; hearfrost”), either from cierzo (“a north-west wind”) or from Latin recēns (“fresh”), or, according to RAE, directly from cierzo (“a north-west wind”). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ada Syllabification: cen‧ce‧lla‧da === Noun === cencellada f (plural cencelladas) (chiefly Salamanca) hoarfrost Synonym: escarcha === References === === Further reading === “cencellada”, 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