alea

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See also: aleá, aléa, Alea, and ALEA

Finnish

Noun

alea

  1. partitive singular of ale

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ālea.

Noun

alea f (plural alee)

  1. risk
  2. uncertainty

Related terms

Latin

Etymology

Originally "pivot-bone" or "joint-bone", since bones were used as early dice; from axis (via a form *axlea).

Pronunciation

Noun

ālea f (genitive āleae); first declension

  1. (games) a die
    • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum divi Iuli 33:
      Caesar: ... "Iacta alea est", inquit.
      Caesar said ... "the die is cast".
  2. (games) any game involving dice
  3. (gambling) the game of chance

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ālea āleae
Genitive āleae āleārum
Dative āleae āleīs
Accusative āleam āleās
Ablative āleā āleīs
Vocative ālea āleae

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: alea
  • Spanish: álea, aleas

References

  • “alea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “alea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • alea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • alea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “alea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “alea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “alea”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “alea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “alea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “aleatory”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From ale, from Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.le̯a/
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Determiner

alea

  1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those
    Synonym: acele

Pronoun

alea

  1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those ones

Spanish

Verb

alea

  1. inflection of alear:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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