teca

Meaning

food

Concepts

theca

teak

eats

grub

sac

teakwood

chow

Tectona grandis

chuck

Synonyms

manduca

pitança

Translations

teak

teck

ξύλο τικ

σκληρό ξύλο τικ

tectona grandis

cibo

🍽️

pasto

tek

teck

chow chow

gavis

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈtɛ.kə]

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish: teca

Borrowed from Latin: thēca

In summary

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”).