gema

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ɛma
  • Hyphenation: gè‧ma

Verb

gema

  1. inflection of gemere:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Lombard

Alternative forms

  • gèmma (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛma/ (Milanese)

Noun

gema f

  1. (botany) bud, shoot
  2. gem (precious stone)

Malay

Noun

gema (Jawi spelling ݢما, plural gema-gema, informal 1st possessive gemaku, 2nd possessive gemamu, 3rd possessive gemanya)

  1. echo.

Synonyms

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -emɐ
  • Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”).

Noun

gema f (plural gemas)

  1. yolk (yellow part of an egg)
  2. gem (precious stone)
  3. (botany) bud, shoot (newly formed leaf or flower)
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “gema” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gema

  1. inflection of gemer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud, precious stone, jewel”). Doublet of yema. According to Coromines and Pascual, a recent learned borrowing not registered even in the 18th-century first edition of the DRAE (Diccionario de Autoridades).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxema/
  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Syllabification: ge‧ma

Noun

gema f (plural gemas)

  1. gem
    Synonym: piedra preciosa
  2. (botany) bud, shoot
    Synonyms: botón, yema

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Catalan: gema (dialectal, Castilianism)

Further reading

Volapük

Noun

gema

  1. genitive singular of gem
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