Tenerife

English

Tenerife

Alternative forms

• Teneriffe (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Tenerife, from Guanche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɛnəˈɹiːf/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːf

Proper noun

Tenerife

1. An island of the Canary Islands, the largest of the islands. Capital: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2. (aviation history) Ellipsis of Tenerife aircrash: The 27 March 1977 Tenerife airport disaster, a ground collision between two fully loaded Boeing 747s operating as KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife Island, destroying both; the crash colloquially known as "Tenerife".

Derived terms

• Tenerife aircrash
• Tenerife air disaster
• Tenerife airport disaster
• Tenerife crash
• Tenerife disaster
• Tenerife giant lizard

Related terms

• Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Translations

one of the Canary Islands

• Arabic: تنريفه (tinirīfih), تنريفي (tinirīfī)
• Basque: Tenerife
• Dutch: Tenerife (nl) n
• Finnish: Teneriffa (fi)
• French: Ténérife (fr) f, Ténériffe (fr) f
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Teneryf n

• Galician: Tenerife (gl) f
• German: Teneriffa (de) n
• Greek: Τενερίφη f (Tenerífi)
• Hawaiian: Heūeke
• Italian: Tenerife f, Teneriffa f
• Japanese: テネリフェ (Tenerife)
• Latin: Īnsula Nivāria f, Nivāria f
• Polish: Teneryfa (pl) f
• Portuguese: Tenerife f
• Serbo-Croatian: Tenerifa
• Spanish: Tenerife f
• Swedish: Teneriffa (sv) n

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Guanche [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teneˈɾife/ [t̪e.neˈɾi.fe]
• Rhymes: -ife
• Syllabification: Te‧ne‧ri‧fe

Proper noun

Tenerife ?

1. Tenerife (an island of the Canary Islands)

Derived terms

• Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• tinerfeño

Descendants

• → English: Tenerife