tinaja
English
Etymology
From Spanish tinaja.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɪˈnɑːhə/
Noun
tinaja (plural tinajas)
- A small pool in a rocky hollow.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:
- The horse limped down to the edge of the water and stood and he stood in the dark tinaja with the rifle over his shoulder holding the brand above him till it burned out and then he stood holding the crooked orange ember of it, still talking to the horse.
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Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *tīnac(u)la, diminutive of Latin tīna. By surface analysis, tina + -aja.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiˈnaxa/ [t̪iˈna.xa]
- Rhymes: -axa
- Syllabification: ti‧na‧ja
Noun
tinaja f (plural tinajas)
- earthenware jar
- (Latin America) tinaja (small pool)
Derived terms
- tinajería
- tinajero
Further reading
- “tinaja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014