alga

See also algă

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈæl.ɡə/

Noun

alga (plural algae)

1. (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds.

Usage notes

• Algaes is a non-standard plural.

Hyponyms

• seaweed

Translations

any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms

• Arabic: طحلب (ar) (ṭuḥlub) m
• Bulgarian: водорасло (bg) (vodoráslo) n 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水藻 (cmn) (shuǐzǎo), 藻類 (cmn), 藻类 (cmn) (zǎolèi)

• Czech: řasa (cs) f
• Dutch: alg (nl)
• Esperanto: algo (eo)
• Finnish: levä (fi)
• French: algue (fr)
• German: Alge (de) f
• Hebrew: אצה (he)
• Hungarian: moszat (hu)
• Icelandic: þörungur (is) m
• Irish: alga (ga) m4

• Italian: alga (it) f
• Japanese: 藻類 (ja) (そうるい, sōrui)
• Korean: 조류 (ko) (joryu)
• Lithuanian: dumbliai (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Alg (lb) f
• Macedonian: алга (mk) (álga) f
• Portuguese: alga (pt) f
• Romanian: algă (ro)
• Russian: водоросль (ru) (vódorosl') f 
• Serbo-Croatian: alga (sh) f
• Spanish: alga (es) f
• Swedish: alg (sv)
• Telugu: శైవలము (te)
• Vietnamese: tảo (vi)

Anagrams

• agal
• gala

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Galician

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

Derived terms

• alga parda
• alga verde
• alga vermella

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Italian

Noun

alga f (plural alghe)

1. seaweed
2. alga

Anagrams

• gala

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *alǵ- (“to be dirty, be slimy; frog; duckweed”). Cognate with Norwegian dialectal alka (“to dirty, soil”), Norwegian ulk (“frog, slime”), Low German ulk (“frog”).

Noun

alga (genitive algae); f, first declension

1. Seaweed; plants that grow in freshwater.
2. (figuratively) Something of little worth.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	alga	algae
genitive	algae	algārum
dative	algae	algīs
accusative	algam	algās
ablative	algā	algīs
vocative	alga	algae

Derived terms

• algensis
• algōsus

Descendants

English: alga French: algue German: Alge

Italian: alga Spanish: alga

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Lithuanian

Noun

alga

1. pay

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA: [ˈaɫgɐ]
• (Brazil) IPA: [ˈawga]
• (Caipira) IPA: [ˈaɻga]

• Hyphenation: al‧ga

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. seaweed (marine plants and algae)

Derived terms

• algáceo

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Noun

alga f (Cyrillic spelling алга)

1. alga

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈal.ɣa/

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

Derived terms

• algar
• algoso