Feminine
teglia
Meaning
- (feminine) tin, tray or sheet for baking
- (broadly, feminine) the quantity of food contained in such tin etc.
- (feminine) large-brimmed hat worn by some priests
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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”).
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