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

   Synonyms: favo, panal, trevo

   • 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

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

• IPA^(key): /enˈtena̝/

entena f (plural entenas)

1. (nautical) yard

   Synonym: verga

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, 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 sprits and the yards and the sails, which were very precious and of many colours, were all broken

• “entena” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “entena” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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/ [ẽn̪ˈt̪e.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: en‧te‧na

entena f (plural entenas)

1. (nautical) a yard on a lateen

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