manteca

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manteca f (plural mantecas)

1. butter

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “manteca”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /manˈtɛ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛka
• Hyphenation: man‧tè‧ca

Borrowed from Spanish manteca.

manteca f (plural manteche)

1. pomade, brilliantine
2. paste

• brillantina

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

manteca

1. inflection of mantecare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• mancate

Borrowed from Spanish manteca.

manteca f (plural manteche)

1. cream (including pomade)
2. milk foam
3. sheep butter
4. (figuratively) money

• ammantecare

• Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “mantèca”, in Schedario Napoletano
• Riccio, Giovanna (2005) Ispanismi nel dialetto napoletano, Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 127

Uncertain. Possibly from Latin mantica or from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, such as Iberian or Celtiberian. Compare Portuguese manteiga.

• IPA^(key): /manˈteka/

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• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: man‧te‧ca

manteca f (plural mantecas)

1. fat, lard
2. shortening
3. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) butter (soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk)

   Synonym: mantequilla

• “manteca”, 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