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Is taenia a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word taenia is a Scrabble US word. The word taenia is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is taenia a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word taenia is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

TAENIA,

5-letter words (4 found)

ANTAE,ENTIA,TENIA,TINEA,

4-letter words (15 found)

AINE,ANTA,ANTE,ANTI,EINA,ETNA,NEAT,NITE,TAIN,TANA,TANE,TEIN,TIAN,TINA,TINE,

3-letter words (24 found)

AIA,AIN,AIT,ANA,ANE,ANI,ANT,ATE,EAN,EAT,ETA,ITA,NAE,NAT,NET,NIE,NIT,TAE,TAI,TAN,TEA,TEN,TIE,TIN,

2-letter words (15 found)

AA,AE,AI,AN,AT,EA,EN,ET,IN,IT,NA,NE,TA,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 60 words from taenia according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of taenia

taenia

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

  • tænia, tenia

Etymology

From Latin taenia, from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “ribbon, tape”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iːniə

Noun

taenia (plural taenias or taeniae)

  1. (historical) A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece.
  2. (architecture, Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order.
    • 2004, William Bell Dinsmoor, The Propylaia to the Athenian Acropolis, Volume 2: The Classical Building, page 165,
      The height of the taenia was likewise determined with regard to the total height of the epistyle, and again, although we should not expect a proportion of less than one-twelfth of the total height (as in the Parthenon), it is reduced to one-thirteenth, executed as 0.089-0.090 m.
  3. (anatomy) Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue.
  4. (biology) Any species of the genus Taenia of tapeworms.

Derived terms

  • taeniacide
  • taeniae coli:
    • taenia libera
    • taenia mesocolica
    • taenia omentalis

Anagrams

  • antiae

French

Etymology

From Latin taenia, from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “ribbon, tape”).

Noun

taenia f (plural taenias)

  1. taenia
  2. Alternative spelling of ténia

Further reading

  • “taenia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “ribbon, tape”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtae̯.ni.a/, [ˈt̪äe̯niä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈte.ni.a/, [ˈt̪ɛːniä]

Noun

taenia f (genitive taeniae); first declension

  1. ribbon
  2. tapeworm
  3. taenia (band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order)
  4. ribbonfish (Trachipterus spp.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

  • “taenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “taenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • taenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “taenia”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “taenia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “taenia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Anagrams

  • antiae

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