encina
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]encina (plural encinas)
- 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.
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish enzina, from Vulgar Latin ilicīna, based on Latin īlex (“holm oak”). Compare Asturian ardina or Catalan alzina (“holm oak”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /enˈθina/ [ẽn̟ˈθi.na] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /enˈsina/ [ẽnˈsi.na] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: en‧ci‧na
Noun
[edit]encina f (plural encinas)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “encina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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