Etymograph

English

cinch

Cinch comes from Occitan cencha.

  1. Occitanc. 1500–presentcencha
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1913cinch

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Occitanc. 1500–presentcencha
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1913cinch

Earliest quotation: 1913, Major Archibald Lee Fletcher: “We thought we had a cinch on getting out…”

Linked words

through Latin cingulum ‘a girdle which encircles the hips’

shingles, 4 more

through Late Latin cingula

shingle, 1 more

Today it means

noun A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Occitan cencha / cinch

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