tinca

From Late Latin tinca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtin.ka/
• Rhymes: -inka
• Hyphenation: tìn‧ca

tinca f (plural tinche)

1. tench

• canti, cinta

Probably of Gaulish or other Celtic origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to dissolve, melt”).^[1][2] The fish was thought to be poisonous, and for the Celtic root compare Old Irish tám (“plague, death”).

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tinca f (genitive tincae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• “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.

• canit

• IPA^(key): /ˈtinka/ [ˈt̪ĩŋ.ka]
• Rhymes: -inka
• Syllabification: tin‧ca

tinca f (plural tincas)

1. (Chile) feeling, hunch

   Synonym: corazonada

2. (Chile) dedication, resolve, commitment

   Synonym: empeño

tinca

1. inflection of tincar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tinca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024