(broadly, feminine) the quantity of food contained in such tin etc.
(feminine) large-brimmed hat worn by some priests
Frequency
Hyphenated as
té‧glia
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈteʎ.ʎa/
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin tēgula. The normal result, tegghia (found in the old Florentine dialect) from the Vulgar Latin *tegla, was probably modified later in a process of hypercorrection. Doublet of tegola (“roof tile”).