teca

teca f (plural teques)

1. (colloquial) food

From Proto-Nahuan *teeka.

• IPA^(key): /teːka/

tēca

1. (transitive) To lay (something) down; spread (something) out on a flat surface.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 199r.

     Poner coſas largas tendidas. nic,teca.

2. (reflexive) To lie down.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 6r.

     Acoſtarme o echarme, nino,teca.

   • ibid., f. 90v.

     Echarſe como en cama. nino,teca.

3. (transitive, of a man) To have sex with.
   • 1555: Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca un vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 137v.

     Hazerlo hõbre ala muger. nite,teca.nite,y ecoa.tetechn,aci.niccui. uiccuicui. [sic]

4. (transitive) To pour.

• (sex) yecoa, tetech ahci, cui, cuicui

• Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, rev. ed. edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 250
• Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 215
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, page 232

Borrowed from Latin theca (16th century)[1], from Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē). Doublet of the inherited tega.

teca f (plural teche)

1. A small reliquary.

• tace

teca f (plural tecas)

1. teak (Tectona grandis, a tropical hardwood tree)
2. teak (wood of the teak tree)

teca f (Cyrillic spelling теца)

1. (Kajkavian) aunt

• teta

• IPA^(key): /ˈteka/, [ˈt̪eka]

Borrowed from Tagalog ticla.

teca f (plural tecas)

1. teak

• teka (obsolete)

From Latin thēca.

teca f (plural tecas)

1. (biology) theca

• “teca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.