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English

Etymology

From New Latin thecium, from Ancient Greek ?????? (th?kion), diminutive of ???? (th?k?, “sheath”)

Noun

thecium (plural thecia)

1. (mycology, dated) The hymenium
2. (mycology, dated) The internal hyphal layers of an apothecium

Derived terms

Related terms

• theca
• Thecia

References

• LIAS Glossary

Anagrams

• hime cut

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin theca, from Ancient Greek ???? (th?k?, “a case, box, receptacle”), from ?????? (títh?mi, “put, set, place”). Doublet of tay.

Noun

theca (plural thecas or thecae)

1. (biology) Any external case or sheath.
2. (botany) The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther.
3. (medicine) The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle.
4. (microbiology, planktology) The membrane complex enveloping the cells of certain plankton including diatoms and dinoflagellates.
5. (marine biology) The calcareous wall of a corallite, the exoskeleton of a coral polyp.
6. (Christianity) A case for the corporal cloth used in the Eucharist.

Derived terms

Related terms

• thecium

Further reading

• theca in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• theca in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• theca at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, cheat, he-cat, tache, teach

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Alternative forms

• theeca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ð???a/

Verb

theca (infinitive g?theca)

1. to pierce, to stab

Related terms

(Nouns)

• m?thece 3

References

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (th?k?, “a case, box, receptacle”), from ?????? (títh?mi, “put, set, place”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?e?.ka/, [?t??e?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?te.ka/, [?t???k?]

Noun

th?ca f (genitive th?cae); first declension

1. a case, envelope, sheath

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Aromanian: teacã
• French: taie, thèque
• ? Irish: tiach
• Italian: tega, teca
• Romanian: teac?
• Spanish: tecla

See also

• hypoth?ca

References

• theca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• theca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• theca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• theca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• theca in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.