caia

See also: Caia and caía

Ladin

Noun

caia f

1. quail

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“cut, hew”), whence also caedō (“I cut”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.i.a/, [ˈkäːiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.i.a/, [ˈkäːiä]

Noun

cāia f (genitive cāiae); first declension

1. A cudgel

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cāia	cāiae
Genitive	cāiae	cāiārum
Dative	cāiae	cāiīs
Accusative	cāiam	cāiās
Ablative	cāiā	cāiīs
Vocative	cāia	cāiae

Descendants

• Portuguese: cajado
• Spanish: alcayata (“meat hook, spike”) (via Hispano-Arabic الخَيَاطَة‏ (al-ḵayāṭa))

References

• “caia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkajɐ/, /ˈkɐiɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ɐ/
• Rhymes: -aja

Verb 1

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Verb 2

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