entena

• antena

Attested since 1707. Unknown origin; perhaps from a substrate *antenna.^[1] Alternatively from Latin antenna (“pole”), because of the poles that were inserted across the beehives as supporters of the honeycombs.

• IPA^(key): /enˈtena̝/

entena f (plural entenas)

1. honeycomb

   Synonyms: favo, panal, trevo

   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña‎:

     e de mel vnha caldeyra, que os meus cobos e cortizos teñen moy boas entenas

     and a cauldron of honey, because my beehives have very good honeycombs

Attested since 1370. Inherited from Latin antemna (“pole”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /enˈtena̝/

entena f (plural entenas)

1. (nautical) yard

   Synonym: verga

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:

     Os mastos et os lostres et as entenas et as uelas, que erã muy preçadas et de muytas collores, todas forõ rronpudas

     The masts and the sprits and the yards and the sails, which were very precious and of many colours, were all broken

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

entena

1. masculine/neuter instrumental singular of enta, which is present active participle of enti (“to come”)

• IPA^(key): /enˈtena/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: en‧te‧na

entena f (plural entenas)

1. (nautical) a yard on a lateen

• “entena”, 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