teranyina

Catalan

Etymology

Contraction of earlier tela (“cloth”) +‎ aranyina (“of a spider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [tə.ɾəˈɲi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [te.ɾaˈɲi.na]

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Noun

teranyina f (plural teranyines)

1. spiderweb, cobweb

   Synonym: tela d'aranya

Further reading

• “teranyina”, 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