Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) line (path through two or more points)
  2. (feminine) line (telephone or network connection)

Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈli.ni.ə]
Etymology

In summary

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin līnea (“thread, line”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Doublet of the inherited llinya. Cognate with Spanish and Galician liña, Spanish línea, and Portuguese linha.

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