manteca

See also: Manteca

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

manteca f (plural mantecas)

1. butter

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “manteca”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Italian

Etymology

From Spanish manteca

Noun

manteca f (plural manteche)

1. pomade, brilliantine
2. paste

Synonyms

• brillantina

Verb

manteca

1. third-person singular present indicative of mantecare
2. second-person singular imperative of mantecare

Anagrams

• mancate

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Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Latin mantica or of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Iberian/(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Celtiberian origin. Compare Portuguese manteiga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈteka/ [mãn̪ˈt̪e.ka]

Noun

manteca f (plural mantecas)

1. fat, lard
2. (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) butter (soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk)

   Synonym: mantequilla

3. shortening

Hyponyms

• manteca de cerdo (“lard”)
• manteca vegetal (“vegetable shortening”)

Derived terms

• mantequilla
• sacamantecas

Further reading

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