Noun: entena
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | entena |
| Plural f | entenas |
Sample Sentences
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e de mel vnha caldeyra, que os meus cobos e cortizos teñen moy boas entenas (and a cauldron of honey, because my beehives have very good honeycombs) [1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:]
Nouns inflected like entena
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since 1707. Unknown origin; perhaps from a substrate *antenna. Alternatively from Latin antenna (“pole”), because of the poles that were inserted across the beehives as supporters of the honeycombs. See: Latin Nouns '
antenna'.
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