zea

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See also: Zea and zèa

Translingual

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Etymology

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Possibly from English Zealand, a province of the Netherlands.

Symbol

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zea

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Zealandic.

English

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Noun

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zea (plural zeas)

  1. Any plant of the genus Zea.
    • 1948, Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper, Continuous Flower Growing, page 83:
      [] and here the types used are principally the dwarf ones; and those plants of a greater height with decorative foliage like the zeas or variegated maize, which are used to produce the effect of sub-tropical bedding.
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Anagrams

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Basque

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Noun

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zea

  1. absolutive singular of ze

Italian

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Etymology

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From translingual Zea, from Latin zēa (spelt), from Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): */ˈd͡zɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Hyphenation: zè‧a

Noun

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zea f (plural zee)

  1. a member of the Zea taxonomic genus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá, spelt)

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Noun

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zēa f (genitive zēae); first declension

  1. A type of grain; spelt (Triticum spelta)
  2. emmer wheat.
  3. A type of rosemary.

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative zēa zēae
Genitive zēae zēārum
Dative zēae zēīs
Accusative zēam zēās
Ablative zēā zēīs
Vocative zēa zēae

Descendants

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  • English: zea, zein
  • Italian: zea
  • Translingual: Zea

References

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  • zea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • zea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • zea”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Romanian

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Noun

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zea f (plural zele)

  1. Alternative form of za

Yola

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English see, from Old English (sea, lake), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (to be fierce, afflict).

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Noun

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zea

  1. sea
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Th' mucha zea sthroan; Zea greoun.
      The great sea-strand; Sea ground.

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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 80