gleba

See also: glebą

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin gleba (“lump, mass”).

Noun

gleba (plural glebae)

1. (mycology) The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.

Anagrams

• Gable, bagel, gabel, gable, galbe

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin glēba.

Noun

gleba f (plural glebe)

1. a clod of earth

Anagrams

• belga

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡleː.ba/, [ˈɡɫ̪eːbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡle.ba/, [ˈɡlɛːbä]

Noun

glēba f (genitive glēbae); first declension

1. Alternative form of glaeba

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	glēba	glēbae
Genitive	glēbae	glēbārum
Dative	glēbae	glēbīs
Accusative	glēbam	glēbās
Ablative	glēbā	glēbīs
Vocative	glēba	glēbae

References

• “gleba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gleba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gleba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• gleba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Polish

Etymology

From Latin gleba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.ba/

• Audio

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Noun

gleba f

1. soil
2. (colloquial) bail, wipeout; a fall, especially during a sports activity
3. (mycology) gleba

Declension

Declension of gleba

	singular	plural
nominative	gleba	gleby
genitive	gleby	gleb
dative	glebie	glebom
accusative	glebę	gleby
instrumental	glebą	glebami
locative	glebie	glebach
vocative	glebo	gleby

Derived terms

• glebnąć

Further reading

• gleba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin glēba, probably borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.ba/
• Hyphenation: gle‧ba

Noun

gleba f (plural glebas)

1. arable land; soil

   Synonym: torrão

2. (by extension) a part of a territory that still needs to be judicially divided
3. one's own place of origin; motherland

   Synonym: pátria

4. a terrain that has not been urbanized
5. a terrain containing ores
6. (historical) feud

   Synonym: feudo

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin glēba, probably borrowed.

Noun

gleba f (plural glebas)

1. clod (lump of earth)
2. arable land; soil

See also

• agro
• glebe (English cognate)