tenia

See also: tenía, ténia, tênia, and teñía

English

Noun

tenia (plural tenias)

1. Alternative spelling of taenia

Anagrams

• Aitne, Teian, antie, eat in, eat-in, eatin', entia, tinea

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təˈni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [teˈni.a]

Verb

tenia

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of tenir
2. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of tindre

Italian

Etymology

From Latin taenĭa, from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “ribbon, tape”).

Noun

tenia f (plural tenie)

1. tapeworm

Anagrams

• Tinea, aneti, etani, etnia, natie, teina

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin taenĭa, from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “ribbon, tape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtenja/ [ˈt̪e.nja]
• Rhymes: -enja
• Syllabification: te‧nia

Noun

tenia f (plural tenias)

1. tapeworm

   Synonym: lombriz solitaria

Further reading

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