llinya

Catalan

Alternative forms

• nyinya

Etymology

Inherited from Latin līnea (“thread, line”), from līnum (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”). Doublet of línia. Cognate with Spanish and Galician liña, Spanish línea, and Portuguese linha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈʎi.ɲə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈʎi.ɲa]

Noun

llinya f (plural llinyes)

1. fishing line
2. (archaic) line

   Synonym: línia

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “llinya”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “llinya”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “llinya”, 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