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Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tinea (“noxious larva”), semantically influenced by translingual Tinea, a genus of moths. Compare French teigne, Italian tigna (“ringworm”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eo
- Hyphenation: ti‧ne‧o
Noun
tineo (accusative singular tineon, plural tineoj, accusative plural tineojn)
- moth
- Synonym: noktopapilio
Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
tineō (present infinitive tineāre, perfect active tineāvī, supine tineātum); first conjugation
- to be infested by moths (or their maggots)
Conjugation
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References
- “tineo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tineo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiˈneo/
- Rhymes: -eo
- Syllabification: ti‧ne‧o
Noun
tineo m (plural tineos)
- A South American tree, Weinmannia trichosperma.
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