tema

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

tema m (plural temes)

1. theme
2. topic, subject
3. (linguistics) theme, topic

   Synonym: tòpic

   Antonym: rema

4. (Internet) discussion thread, topic

   Synonym: fil

• tematització

• temàtic

• “tema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tema” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From temo +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ema
• Hyphenation: te‧ma

tema

1. subject; related to a topic

From Proto-Finnic *tämä, from Proto-Uralic *tä. Cognate with Finnish tämä, Northern Sami dát and Hungarian té- in tétova (“here and there”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtemɑ/
• Hyphenation: te‧ma

tema (genitive tema, partitive teda, short form ta)

1. he/she (3rd person singular animate personal pronoun)

• Used stressed in a sentence; when the pronoun is unstressed, ta is used.

• “tema”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “tema”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• tema in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰeːma/

tema n (genitive singular tema, plural temu or temur)

1. theme; subject

• evni

• temadagur
• temakvøld
• temavika

• "tema" at Sprotin.fo

tema

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

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

tema

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From Dutch thema, from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: tè‧ma
• Rhymes: -ma, -a

tèma (uncountable)

1. theme.

• “tema” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: tè‧ma

tema m (plural temi)

1. theme, subject
2. (linguistics) stem
3. thesis

• a tema
• sottotema
• tematico

• → Turkish: tema

From the verb temere. Compare Romanian teamă, Romansch tema, temma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.ma/, (traditional) /ˈte.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma, (traditional) -ema
• Hyphenation: tè‧ma, (traditional) té‧ma

tema f (plural teme)

1. fear

tema

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

• Meta, mate, matè, meta, meta-, metà, team

tema

1. Rōmaji transcription of てま

Hinde (1904) records kutemma as an equivalent of English mutilate in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /tɛma/

tema (infinitive gũtema)

1. to cut (with a knife)

• gũtinia

(Nouns)

• ndemwa class 9/10
• mũtemi class 1

(Verbs)

• gũtemera
• gũtemwo

(Proverbs)

• gũtema na kanua ti gũtema na rũhiũ
• rũtemaga mwenji

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
• Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 32.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma); cognate to Latin thema.

temà f (plural tèmos) stress pattern 2

1. theme; subject

Borrowed from Italian tema.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛː.ma/

tema m or f (plural temi)

1. topic, theme

• tema’

From Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

tema n (definite singular temaet, indefinite plural tema or temaer, definite plural temaene)

1. a theme
2. a subject or topic

• temapark

• “tema” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

tema n (definite singular temaet, indefinite plural tema, definite plural temaa)

1. a theme
2. a subject or topic

• temapark

• “tema” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Rhymes: -emɐ
• Hyphenation: te‧ma

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma). Doublet of teima.

• thema (obsolete)

tema m (plural temas)

1. theme; topic; subject (what something is about)

   Synonym: tópico

2. theme; motif (recurring idea)

   Synonym: motivo

3. (music) theme (main melody of a piece of music)
4. (film, television) theme (melody that identifies a film or programme)
5. (linguistic morphology) theme (the main stem of a word, without the affixes)
6. (graphical user interface) theme; skin (colour schemes, sounds, artwork of an application)

   Synonym: skin

7. (historical) theme (regional unit of the Byzantine empire)

• teminha (diminutive), temazinho (diminutive)

• temático

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tema

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

From Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

tema m (plural temas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) subject, topic, theme

From temair, temer, etc. Compare Italian tema, Romanian teamă.

• temma (Puter, Vallader)

tema f (plural temas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) fear

• IPA^(key): /těːma/
• Hyphenation: te‧ma

téma f (Cyrillic spelling те́ма)

1. theme, subject

-temá

1. black
2. dark

From Proto-Slavic *tьma.

• IPA^(key): /təmá/, /tə́ma/

təmȁ or tə̏ma f

1. dark, darkness

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

From Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμᾰ (théma).

• IPA^(key): /téːma/

tẹ̑ma f

1. topic, theme

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

• “tema”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

tema

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtema/
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: te‧ma

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma). Doublet of taima.

tema m (plural temas)

1. theme; plot (of a book, film or other media)

   Me gusta la serie porque el tema es complicado.

   I like the series because the plot is complicated.

2. topic; matter; subject

   el tema es que… ― the thing is…

   por el tema de ― because of…

3. (linguistics) theme; topic

   Antonym: rema

4. song, track

   Alternative forms: (augmentative) temazo, (augmentative) temón

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tema

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

• “tema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

-tema (infinitive kutema)

1. to slash, to cut with a panga
2. to spit

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -temea
  • Causative: -temesha
  • Stative: -temeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • utemaji (“spitting”)

Borrowed from Latin thema.

• Audio:

  (file)

tema n

1. a theme, a topic

• tematisk

• tema in Svensk ordbok.

• meta, tame, team

Borrowed from Spanish tema.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtema/
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: te‧ma

tema (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋ)

1. theme; subject

   Synonym: paksa

2. (colloquial) resentment (often expressed indirectly in one's words)

   Synonyms: hinanakit, sama ng loob, pagdaramdam

• pahatid
• mensahe

• mate

Borrowed from Italian tema.

tema (definite accusative temayı, plural temalar)

1. theme, subject

Borrowed from Latin thema.

tema (plural temalar)

1. theme, subject