cea

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cea"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Chehalis.

Symbol

cea

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lower Chehalis terms

Galician

A Última Cea (Last "Supper")

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cẽa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cēna (“dinner”). Cognate with Portuguese ceia and Spanish cena.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈθea/ [ˈθe.ɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈθea/ [ˈθe.ɐ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ˈsea/ [ˈse.ɐ]

• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: ce‧a

Noun

cea f (plural ceas)

1. dinner, supper

   Con malas ceas e ruíns xantares, crecen os ósos e minguan as carnes (proverb)

   with bad dinners and poor lunches, the bones grow and the flesh shrinks

Related terms

• cear

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “cea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “cea”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

cea

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe̯a/

Determiner

cea

1. feminine singular of cel: the (one that is)

   în cea mai mare parte

   for the most part

   (literally, “in the largest part”)

   O vreau pe cealaltă. Cea mică.

   I want the other one. The small one.

Venetan

Adjective

cea

1. feminine singular of ceo