entena

• antena

Attested since 1707. Unknown origin; perhaps from a substrate *antenna.[1] Alternatively from Latin antenna (“pole”), because of the poles that were inserted across the beehives as supporters of the honeycombs.

• IPA^(key): /enˈtena̝/

entena f (plural entenas)

1. honeycomb
   • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:

     e de mel vnha caldeyra, que os meus cobos e cortizos teñen moy boas entenas

     and a cauldron of honey, because my beehives have very good honeycombs

   Synonyms: favo, panal, trevo

Attested since 1370. Inherited from Latin antemna (“pole”).[2]

• IPA^(key): /enˈtena̝/

entena f (plural entenas)

1. (nautical) yard
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:

     Os mastos et os lostres et as entenas et as uelas, que erã muy preçadas et de muytas collores, todas forõ rronpudas

     The masts and the [lostres: unknown meaning] and the yards and the sails, which were very precious and of many colours, were all broken

   Synonym: verga

• “entena” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “entena” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “entena” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “entena” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “entena” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

entena

1. masculine/neuter instrumental singular of enta, which is present active participle of enti (“to come”)

• IPA^(key): /enˈtena/, [ẽn̪ˈt̪ena]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: en‧te‧na

entena f (plural entenas)

1. (nautical) A yard on a lateen