tenia

See also: tenía, ténia, tênia, and teñía

English

Noun

tenia (plural tenias)

1. Alternative spelling of taenia

Anagrams

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [təˈni.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16