cinza

Meaning

Adj

grey

Noun

ash, ashes

Noun

grey (colour)

Concepts

grey

ash

gray

ashes

tipsy

cinder

cinders

smoke

ash-grey

Gray

Robert Gray

drab

grayed

grayish

grayness

greyish

greyness

Synonyms

cinzento

pardo

cinzas

gris

cinzenta

monótono

acinzentado

fumaça

a cinzento

Cinza

Translations

cendre

ceniza

Asche

cenere

gris

gris

grau

grijs

as

grigio

gri

gris

cendra

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsĩ.zɐ/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: cinis

Cognate with Galician: cinza

Cognate with Spanish: ceniza

Cognate with Romanian: cenușă

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese cĩisa (“ashes”), from a Vulgar Latin root *cinisia (“ashes (cold or warm)”), from Latin cinis (“cold ashes”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”).
Cognate with Galician cinza, Spanish ceniza and Romanian cenușă.

Sentences

Alegria , carnaval , amanhã é cinza .

Joy, carnival, tomorrow is gray.

Homem com uma camisa cinza tocando uma guitarra em uma rua da cidade .

Man in a gray shirt playing a guitar on a city street.

Um homem vestindo uma camisa cinza está cortando o cabelo .

A man wearing a gray shirt is cutting his hair.

Experimente essas pulseiras cinza com aqueles lenços creme e pastel .

Try these gray bracelets with those cream and pastel scarves.