tea

torch (a stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source); intoxication, drunkenness

“La reunión terminaba siempre cuando se iban a apagar las teas, cuya duración era de cuatro o cinco horas.” — The meeting ended whenever the torches, whose duration was about four or five hours, were going to go out.

Inherited from Latin tēda, early monophthongized variant of Latin taeda (“torch”).