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Meaning of teca



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1st_ '-teca' is a Greek suffix that points to a collection, a cabinet for storing valuable objects. It comes from 952; 951; 954; 951; (théke, "armario, box" ). 2nd_ Reliquary, specifically the one that stores relics . 3o_ In fungi, it is the cell that generates or contains spores. 4o_ Verbaceous tree ( Tectona grandis ) originating in the East . 5o_ In lunfardo is "money, usually in a certain amount". It may come from the English stock ("meeting of negotiable goods"), but it is more believable an Italian origin like steca ( "splinter", which in lunfa is also used to call money) and can even be a association with "a share of the stick ( million, a lot of money).

  










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