raia

See also: Raia and raía

Galician

Etymology

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)
3. em dash (—)
4. ray (fish)

Synonyms

• (border): fronteira

Related terms

• raiar

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Italian

Noun

raia f (plural raie)

1. ray, skate (fish)

Synonyms

• razza

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Latin

Alternative forms

• raja (Medieval)

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 loanword or substrate origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈrai̯.i̯a/, [ˈräi̯ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ja/, [ˈräːjä]

Noun

raia f (genitive raiae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	raia	raiae
Genitive	raiae	raiārum
Dative	raiae	raiīs
Accusative	raiam	raiās
Ablative	raiā	raiīs
Vocative	raia	raiae

Descendants

• English: ray
• French: raie
• Galician: raia
• Hungarian: rája
• Italian: razza
• Portuguese: raia, arraia
• Spanish: raya

References

• “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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “raia”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 512–513

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• arraia

Etymology 1

From the feminine of raio, or from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius; cf. also the verb raiar. Compare Galician raia, Spanish raya. Cf. also French raie.

A less likely etymology derives it from an earlier arraia, from Old Galician-Portuguese *arraia, from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/
• Hyphenation: rai‧a
• Rhymes: -aja

Noun

raia f (plural s)

1. border (the line or frontier area separating countries)
2. (figuratively) limit
3. (colloquial) mistake

Synonyms

• (border): fronteira
• (mistake): erro

Derived terms

• raiano

Etymology 2

From raiar.

Verb

raia

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

Etymology 3

From Latin raia.

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

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

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Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

Noun

raia (n class, plural raia) or raia (ma class, plural maraia)

1. citizen
2. subject (in a monarchy)

Derived terms

• uraia