gleba

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English

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Etymology

From Latin gleba (“lump, mass”).

Noun

gleba (plural glebae)

  1. (mycology) The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.

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Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glaeba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlɛ.ba/
  • Rhymes: -ɛba
  • Hyphenation: glè‧ba

Noun

gleba f (plural glebe)

  1. a clod of earth

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

glēba f (genitive glēbae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of glaeba

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative glēba glēbae
Genitive glēbae glēbārum
Dative glēbae glēbīs
Accusative glēbam glēbās
Ablative glēbā glēbīs
Vocative glēba glēbae

References

  • “gleba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gleba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gleba 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)
  • gleba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glaeba. Doublet of glob and globus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlɛ.ba/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛba
  • Syllabification: gle‧ba

Noun

gleba f

  1. soil
  2. (colloquial) bail, wipeout; a fall, especially during a sports activity
  3. (mycology) gleba

Declension

Declension of gleba
singular plural
nominative gleba gleby
genitive gleby gleb
dative glebie glebom
accusative glebę gleby
instrumental glebą glebami
locative glebie glebach
vocative glebo gleby

Derived terms

adjectives
verb

Further reading

  • gleba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gleba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: gle‧ba

Noun

gleba f (plural glebas)

  1. arable land; soil
    Synonym: torrão
  2. (by extension) a part of a territory that still needs to be judicially divided
  3. one's own place of origin; motherland
    Synonym: pátria
  4. a terrain that has not been urbanized
  5. a terrain containing ores
  6. (historical) feud
    Synonym: feudo

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡleba/
  • Rhymes: -eba
  • Syllabification: gle‧ba

Noun

gleba f (plural glebas)

  1. clod (lump of earth)
  2. arable land; soil

See also

Further reading

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