tinca

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See also: tincá

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin tinca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtin.ka/
  • Rhymes: -inka
  • Hyphenation: tìn‧ca

Noun

tinca f (plural tinche)

  1. tench

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Probably of Gaulish or other Celtic origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to dissolve, melt”).[1][2] The fish was thought to be poisonous, and for the Celtic root compare Old Irish tám (“plague, death”).

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. What is the evidence for Celtic origin or for PIE *teh₂-?

Noun

tinca f (genitive tincae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) a small fish, the tench

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tinca tincae
genitive tincae tincārum
dative tincae tincīs
accusative tincam tincās
ablative tincā tincīs
vocative tinca tincae

Descendants

Descendants

References

  • “tinca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tinca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tinca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ “tench”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Anagrams

Spanish

Noun

tinca f (plural tincas)

  1. (Chile) feeling, hunch
    Synonym: corazonada
  2. (Chile) dedication, resolve, commitment
    Synonym: empeño

Verb

tinca

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

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