alea

See also: aleá, aléa, Alea, and ALEA

English

Noun

alea (uncountable)

1. (historical) The earliest known tables game, a possible ancestor of backgammon.

Finnish

Noun

alea

1. partitive singular of ale

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ālea.

Noun

alea f (plural alee)

1. risk
2. uncertainty

Related terms

• aleatorio

Latin

Etymology

Originally "pivot-bone" or "joint-bone", since bones were used as early dice; from axis (via a form *axlea).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.ɫe.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.le.a]

Noun

ālea f (genitive āleae); first declension

1. (dice games) a die

   Synonym: cubus

   Coordinate terms: tessera, talus

   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum divi Iuli 33:

     Caesar: ... "Iacta alea est", inquit.

     Caesar said ... "the die is cast".

2. (games) any game involving dice
3. (gambling) the game of chance

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ālea	āleae
genitive	āleae	āleārum
dative	āleae	āleīs
accusative	āleam	āleās
ablative	āleā	āleīs
vocative	ālea	āleae

Derived terms

• āleāris
• āleārius
• āleātor
• āleātōrium
• āleātōrius
• āleō

Descendants

• → Italian: alea
• → Spanish: álea, áleas

References

• “alea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "alea", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “alea”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “alea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alea”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “alea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “alea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From ale, from Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.le̯a/

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Determiner

alea

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those

   Synonym: acele

Pronoun

alea

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those ones

Spanish

Verb

alea

1. inflection of alear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative