tenca

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɛŋ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtəŋ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈteŋ.ka]

Inherited from Latin tinca.

tenca f (plural tenques)

1. tench (Tinca tinca, a species of freshwater game fish)

Probably alteration of penca.

tenca f (plural tenques)

1. slice (e.g. of bacon)
2. cork board

• “tenca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “tenca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tenca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Late Latin tinca, probably from Gaulish.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈteŋka̝/

tenca f (plural tencas)

1. tench (Tinca tinca)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tenca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tenca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• tanca (Gascony)
• tencha (Limousin)
• tenga (Gascony)

From Latin tinca.

tenca f (plural tencas)

1. (Gascony, Provençal) tench (Tinca tinca, a species of freshwater game fish)

From Latin tinca.

• Rhymes: -ẽkɐ

tenca f (plural tencas)

1. tench (Tinca tinca, a species of freshwater game fish)

• “tenca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “tenca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Latin tinca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtenka/ [ˈt̪ẽŋ.ka]
• Rhymes: -enka
• Syllabification: ten‧ca

tenca f (plural tencas)

1. tench (Tinca tinca, a species of freshwater game fish)
2. Chilean mockingbird (Mimus thenca)
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 258:

     Cuando la tenca canta con la cola vuelta hacia una casa, sus moradores deben esperar carta o dinero.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “tenca”, 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