encina

Spanish encina

encina (plural encinas)

1. holm oak, live oak, evergreen oak
   • 1836, John Claudius Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine and Register (page 366)

     The form of this tree is much more beautiful than that of the encina, as it grows with more freedom, and, in the districts suited to it, attains a great height.

• encino

Inherited from Old Spanish enzina, from Vulgar Latin ilicīna, based on Latin īlex (“holm oak”). Compare Catalan alzina (“holm oak”).

• IPA^(key): /enˈθina/ [ẽn̟ˈθi.na] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /enˈsina/ [ẽnˈsi.na] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: en‧ci‧na

encina f (plural encinas)

1. holm oak, live oak, evergreen oak

• “encina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024