tinca

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 Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to dissolve, melt”).[1][2] The fish was thought to be poisonous.

Noun

tinca f (genitive tincae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tinca tincae
Genitive tincae tincārum
Dative tincae tincīs
Accusative tincam tincās
Ablative tincā tincīs
Vocative tinca tincae

Descendants
Descendants of tinca in other languages
  • Catalan: tenca
  • English: tench
  • French: tenche
  • Italian: tinca
  • Mirandese: tenca
  • Old French: tenche
  • Portuguese: tenca
  • Spanish: tenca

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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