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Basque
Noun
dea
- absolutive singular of de
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin dea.
Pronunciation
Noun
dea f (plural dees)
- goddess
- Synonym: deessa
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Further reading
Galician
Verb
dea
- inflection of dar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Hawaiian Creole
Etymology
From English there.
Adverb
dea
- there, that place
Da ting is ova dea.- The thing is over there.
Interlingua
Noun
dea (plural deas)
- goddess
- Britannia esseva un dea minor in polytheismo romano-britannic; su depiction actual ha essite modificate pro evocar le nationalismo britannic moderne.WP
- Britannia was a minor goddess in Romano-British polytheism; her present appearance has been modified in order to evoke modern British nationalism.
Istriot
Noun
dea f
- female equivalent of deo; goddess
1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,- You seem to me a goddess among the gods,
Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛ.a/, (traditional) */ˈdɛ.a/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛa
- Hyphenation: dè‧a
Noun
dea f (plural dee, masculine dio)
- goddess
- Synonym: (poetic) diva
- (informal, acting) female star
- Synonym: diva
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
dea
- (obsolete) third-person singular present subjunctive of dovere
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Verb
dea
- (archaic) third-person singular present subjunctive of dare
References
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Old Latin deiva, from Proto-Italic *deiwā.
Pronunciation
Noun
dea f (genitive deae); first declension (for the masculine form, see deus)
- goddess
Declension
First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ābus).
Descendants
Further reading
- “dea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Lombard
Etymology
From Latin dea.
Pronunciation
- (Western, Milanese) IPA(key): /ˈdɛa/
- Hyphenation: de‧a
Noun
dea f
- (Classical Milanese Orthography spelling) Alternative form of deja
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
dea
- genitive plural of día (“god”)
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Nasalization
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dea pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
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ndea
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Romanian
Pronunciation
Verb
dea
- third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of da
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin dea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdea/
- Rhymes: -ea
- Syllabification: de‧a
Noun
dea f (plural deas)
- (poetic) goddess
- Synonym: diosa
Further reading
Tabaru
Pronunciation
Noun
dea
- father
- 'o 'esa de 'o dea ― mother and father
References
- Edward A. Kotynski (1988) “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics
Transylvanian Saxon
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German dū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronoun
dea
- You
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian dād, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
Adjective
dea
- dead
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “dea (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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Brazilian standard
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New Tribes
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Pronunciation
Particle
dea
- Alternative form of de'a (“still, again, at the same time or place”)