Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Tinea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Tineidae – clothes moths.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Lepidoptera - order, Glossata - suborder, Heteroneura - infraorder, Ditrysia - division

Hyponyms

• (genus): Tinea pellionella - type species
• For the numerous species see Tinea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Italian

Proper noun

Tinea ?

1. The river Tinée that flows in France

English

Noun

tinea ‎(plural tineas or tineae)

1. (pathology) A fungal infection of the skin known generally as ringworm.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 6:

     Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken.

Related terms

• tinea cruris
• tinea nigra

See also

• athlete’s foot
• barber’s itch
• dermatophytosis
• jock itch
• ringworm

Translations

Anagrams

• eat in, eatin', Étaín, tenia

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *teh₂w- ‎(“to melt”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ne.a/, [ˈtɪ.ne.a]

Noun

tinea f ‎(genitive tineae); first declension

1. a destructive insect larva that attacks household items such as books or clothing; larva, maggot, caterpillar

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

References

• tinea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tinea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TINEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tinea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.