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

• canti, cinta

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

• 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

• canit

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

Further reading

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