alga
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algi
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
alga (plural algae)
- (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
Usage notes
- Algaes is a non-standard plural.
Hyponyms
- (photosynthetic aquatic organism): seaweed; green alga (Chlorophyta and Charophyta) and red alga (Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta) in Plantae); brown alga (Phaeophyceae) and yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae), Haptophyta, and Cryptomonada in Chromista), and blue-green alga (Cyanobacteria)
- microalga
- golden alga
- ice alga
- snow alga
Derived terms
Translations
any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms
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Further reading
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (plural algues)
Further reading
- “alga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Faroese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (genitive singular algu, plural algur)
Declension
| Declension of alga | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | alga | algan | algur | algurnar |
| accusative | algu | alguna | algur | algurnar |
| dative | algu | alguni | algum | algunum |
| genitive | algu | algunnar | alga | alganna |
Galician
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: al‧ga
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “alga” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English alga, from Latin alga.
Pronunciation
Noun
alga m (genitive singular alga, nominative plural algaí)
Declension
Declension of alga
Derived terms
- algach (“algal”, adjective)
- algeolaíocht f (“algology”)
- algeolaí m (“algologist”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| alga | n-alga | halga | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “alga” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.=
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (plural alghe)
Further reading
- alga in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- alga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *alǵ- (“to be dirty, be slimy; frog; duckweed”). Cognate with Norwegian dialectal alka (“to dirty, soil”), Norwegian ulk (“frog, slime”), Low German ulk (“frog”).
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (genitive algae); first declension
- Seaweed; plants that grow in freshwater.
- (figuratively) Something of little worth.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | alga | algae |
| Genitive | algae | algārum |
| Dative | algae | algīs |
| Accusative | algam | algās |
| Ablative | algā | algīs |
| Vocative | alga | algae |
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants of alga in other languages
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *algā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elgʷʰ-.
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (4th declension)
Declension
Declension of alga (4th declension)
Synonyms
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *algā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elgʷʰ-. Cognate with Latvian àlga (“salary”), Old Prussian ālgas (“salary”, Gsg.), Ancient Greek ἀλφή (alphḗ, “gain, profit”), Sanskrit अर्घ (arghá, “worth, value, price”).
Pronunciation
Noun
algà f (plural al̃gos) stress pattern 4
Declension
Declension of algà
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | algà | al̃gos |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | algõs | algų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | al̃gai | algóms |
| accusative (galininkas) | al̃gą | algàs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | algà | algomìs |
| locative (vietininkas) | algojè | algosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | al̃ga | al̃gos |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Derksen, Rick (2015) “alga”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 49
- ^ “alga”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ^ “algà” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 20 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
Further reading
- “alga”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- “alga”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024
Lombard
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f
Occitan
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
Old Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Spanish: alga
Polish
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Alge or French algue, from Latin alga. First attested in 1619.
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f
- alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms)
- Synonym: glon
- Hypernym: wodorost
- na bazie alg ― basedn on algae
- algi morskie ― sea/marine algae
- sproszkowane algi ― powdered algae
- nawilżające algi ― moisturizing algae
- brunatne algi ― brown algae
- zielone algi ― green algae
- niebieskie algi ― blue algae
- czerwone algi ― red algae
- lecznicze algi ― healing/therapeutic/medicinal algae
- hodowla alg ― algae culture/cultivation
- uprawa alg ― algae cultivation/growth/growing
- gatunek alg ― a species of algae
Declension
Usually in the plural.
Declension of alga
Derived terms
adjectives
nouns
References
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “alga”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “alga”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Krystyna Siekierska (31.03.2009) “ALGA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Further reading
- alga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- alga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- alga in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Caipira Brazil) IPA(key):
- Homophone: auga (Brazil)
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -alɡɐ, (Brazil) -awɡɐ
- Hyphenation: al‧ga
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
- (botany) alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms similar to plants or bacteria)
- seaweed (any marine plant)
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (Cyrillic spelling алга)
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “alga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014