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Translingual
Etymology
Possibly from English Zealand, a province of the Netherlands.
Symbol
zea
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Zealandic.
English
Noun
zea (plural zeas)
- 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.
Anagrams
Basque
Noun
zea
- 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)
- 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
- A type of grain; spelt (Triticum spelta)
- emmer wheat.
- A type of rosemary.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
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)
- Alternative form of za
Yola
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
- 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