gema

See also: Gema

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Syllabification: gè‧ma

Verb

gema

1. inflection of gemere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• mega-

Lombard

Alternative forms

• gèmma (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛma/ (Milanese)

Noun

gema f

1. (botany) bud, shoot
2. gem (precious stone)

Malay

Noun

gema (Jawi spelling ݢما‎, plural gema-gema, informal 1st possessive gemaku, 2nd possessive gemamu, 3rd possessive gemanya)

1. echo.

Synonyms

• gaung
• guk

Further reading

• “gema” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒẽ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒe.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒe.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -emɐ
• Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”).

Noun

gema f (plural gemas)

1. yolk (yellow part of an egg)
2. gem (precious stone)
3. (botany) bud, shoot (newly formed leaf or flower)
4. (figurative) something which is pure or authentic

   Sou português de gema. ― I'm a true Portuguese.

Derived terms

• ser de gema

Further reading

• “gema” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gema

1. inflection of gemer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud, precious stone, jewel”). Doublet of yema. According to Coromines and Pascual, a recent learned borrowing not registered even in the 18th-century first edition of the DRAE (Diccionario de Autoridades).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxema/ [ˈxe.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: ge‧ma

Noun

gema f (plural gemas)

1. gem

   Synonym: piedra preciosa

2. (botany) bud, shoot

   Synonyms: botón, yema

Further reading

• “gema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1991), “yema”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 775

Volapük

Noun

gema

1. genitive singular of gem