badia

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Basque

Pronunciation

Noun

badia inan

  1. bay

Declension

Declension of badia (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive badia badia badiak
ergative badiak badiak badiek
dative badiari badiari badiei
genitive badiaren badiaren badien
comitative badiarekin badiarekin badiekin
causative badiarengatik badiarengatik badiengatik
benefactive badiarentzat badiarentzat badientzat
instrumental badiaz badiaz badiez
inessive badiatan badian badietan
locative badiatako badiako badietako
allative badiatara badiara badietara
terminative badiataraino badiaraino badietaraino
directive badiatarantz badiarantz badietarantz
destinative badiatarako badiarako badietarako
ablative badiatatik badiatik badietatik
partitive badiarik — —
prolative badiatzat — —

Descendants

  • → Latin: baia

See also

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Probably from French baie influenced by badar or badiu.

Noun

badia f (plural badies)

  1. bay (body of water mostly surrounded by land)

Etymology 2

From Old Catalan vedilla, from Latin vītīcula.

Noun

badia f (plural badies)

  1. strand, filament
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Further reading

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin abbātīa, derived from Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbazia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baˈdi.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ba‧dì‧a

Noun

badia f (plural badie)

  1. abbey
    Synonym: abbazia
    • c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎, lines 73–77; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ma, per salirla, mo nessun diparte
      da terra i piedi, e la regola mia
      rimasa è per danno de le carte.
      Le mura che solieno esser badia
      fatte sono spelonche […]
      But to ascend it now no one uplifts his feet from off the earth, and now my Rule below remaines for mere waste of paper. The walls that used of old to be an Abbey are changed to dens of robbers
    • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro quinto [Fifth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎, published 1991, section 2:
      tornato in Firenze, tutto suo patrimonio d’Alamagna fece vendere, e ordinò e fece fare sette badie: la prima fu la Badia di Firenze a onore di santa Maria
      Having returned to Florence, he had all his property in Germany sold, and commissioned the making of seven abbeys: the first one was the abbey of Florence, in honor of St. Mary
  2. (figurative) abundance; well-being

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Further reading

  • badia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

badia

  1. inflection of badius:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

badiā

  1. ablative feminine singular of badius
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