lenza

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lintea, feminine of linteus (“linen”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛn.t͡sa/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntsa
  • Hyphenation: lèn‧za

Noun

lenza f (plural lenze)

  1. fishing line

Derived terms
  • lenzara

Descendants
  • → Tunisian Arabic: لنتزة (lintza, “fishing line”)[1]

References
  1. Guido Bellatti Ceccoli, Franco Pierno (2006) “Talassozoonimi e terminologia dell'attività ittica d'influenza italiana nel dialetto arabo tunisino”, in Romance Philology (in Tunisian Arabic), volume 59, number 2, →JSTOR, page 228

Further reading
  • lenza in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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