raia

See also: Raia and raía

English

Noun

raia (plural raias)

1. Alternative form of raya (“type of historical territory”).

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], probably the feminine of raio, or from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius; cf. also the verb raiar. Compare Portuguese raia, Spanish raya.

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

1. stripe (long, straight region of a single colour)
2. border (line separating regions)

   Synonym: fronteira

3. em dash (—)
4. ray (fish)

Related terms

• raiar

Etymology 2

Verb

raia

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin raia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ja/
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: rà‧ia

Noun

raia f (plural raie)

1. ray, skate (fish)

   Synonym: razza

Anagrams

• -aria, arai, aria

Latin

Alternative forms

• raja

Etymology

Hypothetically from a Proto-Italic *rajjā (perhaps < *ragjā), with unknown further origin. Parallels can be found in Germanic: Middle Dutch rogghe/rochghe (Dutch rog) and Middle Low German rugge, from Western Proto-Germanic *rugg-, as well as Old English reohhe, Middle English reyhhe, reȝge, rygh all meaning "ray". Taken together with the Latin, these forms could point to a dialectal Proto-Indo-European *raK- ~ *ruK- (“ray”); however, the phonetic correspondences are unusual even within Germanic, and this could indicate a shared loanword or substrate origin for both the Germanic and Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraj.ja]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.ja]

Noun

raia f (genitive raiae); first declension

1. ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	raia	raiae
genitive	raiae	raiārum
dative	raiae	raiīs
accusative	raiam	raiās
ablative	raiā	raiīs
vocative	raia	raiae

Descendants

• Catalan: rajada
• Old French: raie
  • → Middle English: raye
    • English: ray
  • French: raie
• Galician: raia
• → Hungarian: rája
• Italian: razza
• Portuguese: raia, arraia
• Sicilian: raja
• Spanish: raya

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/ [ˈhaɪ̯.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/ [ˈhaɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/ [ˈχaɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.a/ [ˈhaɪ̯.a]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -ajɐ
• Hyphenation: rai‧a

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese raia (“ray”), from Latin raia (“ray”), of uncertain origin.

Alternative forms

• arraia

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

1. ray (marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail)
2. kite (flying toy on a string)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pipa

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Likely from raio (“beam”) +‎ -a (forms feminine equivalents), or from an equivalent Vulgar Latin *radia, ultimately from Latin radius. Cognates include Galician raia and Spanish raya.

Alternative forms

• arraia (in sense 2)

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

1. stripe
3. border (the line or frontier area separating countries)

   Synonym: fronteira

4. (figuratively) limit
5. (colloquial) mistake

   Synonym: erro

Derived terms

• raiano

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

raia

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

Further reading

• “raia”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “raia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “raia”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2025
• “raia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “raia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish رعایا (raya), from Arabic رَعَايَا (raʕāyā), plural of رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

Noun

raia m (plural raiale)

1. rayah

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	raia	raiaul		raiale	raialei
genitive-dative	raia	raiaului		raiale	raialelor
vocative	raiaule			raialelor

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

Pronunciation

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Noun

raia class I/IX (plural raia class II/X or maraia class II/X)

1. citizen

   Synonym: mwananchi

2. subject (in a monarchy)

Derived terms

• kiraia
• uraia