zea

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See also: Zea and zèa

Translingual

Etymology

Possibly from English Zealand, a province of the Netherlands.

Symbol

zea

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Zealandic.

English

Noun

zea (plural zeas)

  1. Any plant of the genus Zea.
    • 1948, Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper, Continuous Flower Growing, page 83:
      […] and here the types used are principally the dwarf ones; and those plants of a greater height with decorative foliage like the zeas or variegated maize, which are used to produce the effect of sub-tropical bedding.

Related terms

Basque

Noun

zea

  1. absolutive singular of ze

Italian

Etymology

From translingual Zea, from Latin zēa (“spelt”), from Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈd͡zɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Hyphenation: zè‧a

Noun

zea f (plural zee)

  1. a member of the Zea taxonomic genus

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá, “spelt”)

Pronunciation

Noun

zēa f (genitive zēae); first declension

  1. A type of grain; spelt (Triticum spelta)
  2. emmer wheat.
  3. A type of rosemary.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative zēa zēae
Genitive zēae zēārum
Dative zēae zēīs
Accusative zēam zēās
Ablative zēā zēīs
Vocative zēa zēae

Descendants

  • → English: zea, ⇒ zein
  • → Italian: zea
  • → Translingual: Zea

References

  • “zea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • zea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “zea”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Romanian

Noun

zea f (plural zele)

  1. Alternative form of za

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”).

Pronunciation

Noun

zea

  1. sea
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Th' mucha zea sthroan; Zea greoun.
      The great sea-strand; Sea ground.

Derived terms

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 80
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