tenamaste

== English == === Etymology === From Spanish tenamaste. === Pronunciation === === Noun === tenamaste (plural tenamastes) Any of the three stones traditionally used to elevate a comal above a fire in Mesoamerican cultures. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tenamaste. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Mantatees, emanatest, stamenate == Spanish == === Alternative forms === tenamaztle, tenamastle, tinamaste === Etymology === Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl tenamaztli (“hearthstone, triplet”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tenaˈmaste/ [t̪e.naˈmas.t̪e] Rhymes: -aste Syllabification: te‧na‧mas‧te === Noun === tenamaste m (plural tenamastes) (Central America, Mexico) a hearthstone, any of the three stones traditionally used to elevate a comal above a fire (in the plural, Mexico) triplets Synonym: trillizos === References === === Further reading === “tenamaste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025