encina

Spanish encina

encina (plural encinas)

1. holm oak, live oak, evergreen oak
   • 1836, John Claudius Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine and Register, page 366:

     The form of this tree is much more beautiful than that of the encina, as it grows with more freedom, and, in the districts suited to it, attains a great height.

• encino

Inherited from Old Spanish enzina, from Vulgar Latin ilicīna, based on Latin īlex (“holm oak”). Compare Catalan alzina (“holm oak”).

• IPA^(key): /enˈθina/ [ẽn̟ˈθi.na] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /enˈsina/ [ẽnˈsi.na] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: en‧ci‧na

encina f (plural encinas)

1. holm oak, live oak, evergreen oak

• “encina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024