dea

See also: Dea, DEA, dèa, dea-, de'a, and deá-

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dea.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: de‧a

Noun

dea f (plural dees)

1. goddess

   Synonym: deessa

Hypernyms

• deïtat (“deity”)

Hyponyms

• Dea (“Goddess”)

Related terms

• Dea (“Goddess”)
• déu (“god”)

Further reading

• “dea” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dea”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “dea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dea” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Verb

dea

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of dar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of dar

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Interlingua

Noun

dea (plural deas)

1. goddess

   Britannia esseva un dea minor in polytheismo romano-britannic; su depiction actual ha essite modificate pro evocar le nationalismo britannic moderne.^[1]

   Britannia was a minor goddess in Romano-British polytheism; her present appearance has been modified in order to evoke modern British nationalism.

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Istriot

Noun

dea f

1. (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of deo; goddess
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,

     You seem to me a goddess among the gods,

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Italian

Noun

dea f (plural dee, masculine dio)

1. goddess

   Synonym: (poetic) diva

2. (informal, acting) female star

   Synonym: diva

See also

• Bellona (Enio), Diana (Artemide), Giunone (Era), Minerva (Atene), Venere (Afrodite)

Anagrams

• Ade

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Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin deiva, from Proto-Italic *deiwā.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.a/, [ˈd̪eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.a/, [ˈd̪ɛːä]

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Noun

dea f (genitive deae); first declension (for the masculine form, see deus)

1. goddess

Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ābus).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dea	deae
Genitive	deae	deārum
Dative	deae	deābus
Accusative	deam	deās
Ablative	deā	deābus
Vocative	dea	deae

Further reading

• “dea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲe.a/

Noun

dea

1. genitive plural of día (“god”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dea	dea pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndea
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de̯a]

Verb

dea

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of da
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of da

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian dād, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

dea

1. dead

Inflection

Inflection of dea
uninflected	dea
inflected	deade
comparative	deader
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		dea	deader	it deadst it deadste
indefinite	c. sing.	deade	deadere	deadste
	n. sing.	dea	deader	deadste
	plural	deade	deadere	deadste
definite		deade	deadere	deadste
partitive		deads	deaders	—

Derived terms

• deadzje

Further reading

• “dea (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011