acea
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A Galician acea or muíño ("water mill") 
Acea ("tide mill")
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic سَانِيَة (sāniya). Attested from the 13th century (azea). Cognate with Portuguese azenha, Spanish aceña, Catalan sínia, Basque azenia.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
acea f (plural aceas)
- tide mill
- water mill with a vertical water wheel
- Synonym: muíño
Usage notes
If the water mill has a horizontal wheel or turbine, then it is a muíño.
Derived terms
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “azea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “acea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “acea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- "acea" in Lorenzo Fernández, Secundino, Dicionario fluvial.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “aceña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Romanian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eccum illa, feminine singular of *eccum ille, from Latin eccum + ille.
Pronunciation
Determiner
acea
- nominative/accusative feminine singular of acel
- Synonym: (informal) aia