# 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: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛ.kə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈte.ka]

#### Noun

teca f (plural teques)
* (colloquial) food

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) unknown
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈte.ka]

#### Noun

teca f (plural teques)
* (botany) teak

### Etymology 3

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛ.kə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈte.ka]

#### Noun

teca f (plural teques)
* (biology) theca

### References

* ↑ “teca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

### 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, 2025
* “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: /teːka/

### Verb

tēca
* (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)
* (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.
* (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)
* (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: /ˈtɛ.ka/
* Rhymes: -ɛka
* Hyphenation: tè‧ca

### Noun

teca f (plural teche)
* a small reliquary

### References

* ↑ tèca in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

### Anagrams

* tace

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛ.kɐ/
* Hyphenation: te‧ca

### Noun

teca f (plural tecas)
* teak (Tectona grandis, a tropical hardwood tree)
* teak (wood of the teak tree)

#### Descendants

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

teca f (Cyrillic spelling теца)
* (Kajkavian) aunt
    Synonym: teta

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈteka/ [ˈt̪e.ka]
* Rhymes: -eka
* Syllabification: te‧ca

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese teca.

#### Noun

teca f (plural tecas)
* teak

##### Alternative forms

* teka (obsolete)

### Etymology 2

From Latin thēca.

#### Noun

teca f (plural tecas)
* (biology) theca

### Further reading

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

## Welsh
### Etymology

teg +‎ -a

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɛka/

### Adjective

teca
* (colloquial) informal form of tecaf (“fairest”).

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.