teca
Portuguese, noun
teca is spelled T-E-C-A (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 34,608th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Teca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “teak (Tectona grandis)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, teça is a different word: “first/third-person singular present subjunctive”.
What does teca mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineteak (Tectona grandis)
noun
- 1
femininetheca (covering or membrane, usually of a fibrous nature, that surrounds certain organs)
- 2
femininetheca (each of the dilated parts of an anther within which are the pollen sacs)
- 3
femininequantity of fish belonging to each of the fishermen, in a haul
- 4
feminineinformalmoney
- 5
Brazilfemininepyx (small container used to carry viaticum to the sick)
suffix
- 1
feminineUsed for any kind of collection.
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. coleção 2. depósito 3. arquivo 4. lugar de armazenamento
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of teca
- tecas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to teca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is teca in Portuguese?
teca appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).