teca

See also: Appendix:Variations of "teca"

Catalan

Etymology 1

Probably deverbal from encatacar-se (“to eat”), in turn a cross between atacar-se (“to attack”), encarcanyar-se, and Old Catalan entecar-se (“to be contagious”), alteration of *eticar-se, from ètic (“phthisic, tuberculosis”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈte.ka]

Noun

teca f (plural teques)

1. (colloquial) food

Etymology 2

Probably borrowed from Spanish teca; in turn from Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈte.ka]

Noun

teca f (plural teques)

1. (botany) teak

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin thēca (“case, envelope, sheath”), from Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈte.ka]

Noun

teca f (plural teques)

1. (biology) theca

Further reading

• “teca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “teca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “teca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “teca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *teeka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teːka/

Verb

tēca

1. (transitive) To lay (something) down; spread (something) out on a flat surface.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 199r:

     Poner coſas largas tendidas. nic,teca.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (reflexive) To lie down.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 6r:

     Acoſtarme o echarme, nino,teca.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • ibid., f. 90v.

     Echarſe como en cama. nino,teca.

3. (transitive, of a man) To have sex with.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v:

     Hazerlo hõbre ala muger. nite,teca.nite,y ecoa.tetechn,aci.niccui. uiccuicui. [sic]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (transitive) To pour.

Synonyms

• (sex) yecoa, tetech ahci, cui, cuicui

References

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 250
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 215
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 232

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin theca (16th century), from Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē). Doublet of the inherited tega.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

teca f (plural teche)

1. a small reliquary

Anagrams

• tace

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) / Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: te‧ca

Noun

teca f (plural tecas)

1. teak (Tectona grandis, a tropical hardwood tree)
2. teak (wood of the teak tree)

Descendants

• → Dutch: teak
• → English: teak
  • → Telugu: టేకు (ṭēku)
• → Finnish: teak, tiikki
• → Spanish: teca, teka

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

teca f (Cyrillic spelling теца)

1. (Kajkavian) aunt

   Synonym: teta

Declension

Kajkavian declension of teca

	singular	plural
nominative	teca	tece
genitive	tece	tec
dative	tece	tecam
accusative	tecu	tece
vocative	-	-
locative	tece	tecah
instrumental	tecu	tecami

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteka/ [ˈt̪e.ka]
• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: te‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese teca.

Noun

teca f (plural tecas)

1. teak

Alternative forms

• teka (obsolete)

Etymology 2

From Latin thēca.

Noun

teca f (plural tecas)

1. (biology) theca

Further reading

• “teca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014