dea

dea

See also: Dea, DEA, dèa, dea-, deá-, de-a, de'a, and deʼa

Basque

Noun

dea

1. absolutive singular of de

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dea.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈde.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈde.a/
• Hyphenation: de‧a

Noun

dea f (plural dees)

1. goddess

   Synonym: deessa

Hypernyms

• deïtat (“deity”)

Hyponyms

• Dea (“Goddess”)

Related terms

• Dea (“Goddess”)
• déu (“god”)

Further reading

• “dea” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dea”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “dea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dea” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Verb

dea

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of dar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of dar

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Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From English there.

Adverb

dea

1. there, that place

   Da ting is ova dea.

   The thing is over there.

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Interlingua

Noun

dea (plural deas)

1. goddess

   Britannia esseva un dea minor in polytheismo romano-britannic; su depiction actual ha essite modificate pro evocar le nationalismo britannic moderne.

   Britannia was a minor goddess in Romano-British polytheism; her present appearance has been modified in order to evoke modern British nationalism.

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Istriot

Noun

dea f

1. female equivalent of deo; goddess
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,

     You seem to me a goddess among the gods,

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.a/, (traditional) ^*/ˈdɛ.a/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: dè‧a

Noun

dea f (plural dee, masculine dio)

1. goddess

   Synonym: (poetic) diva

2. (informal, acting) female star

   Synonym: diva

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.a/, /ˈde.a/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛa, -ea
• Hyphenation: dè‧a, dé‧a

Verb

dea

1. (obsolete) third-person singular present subjunctive of dovere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.a/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: dè‧a

Verb

dea

1. (archaic) third-person singular present subjunctive of dare

References

1. dea in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

• -ade, Ade

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Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin deiva, from Proto-Italic *deiwā.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.a/, [ˈd̪eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.a/, [ˈd̪ɛːä]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

dea f (genitive deae); first declension (for the masculine form, see deus)

1. goddess
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.13:

     ecce deās vīdī

     Behold! I saw goddesses.

Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ābus).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dea	deae
Genitive	deae	deārum
Dative	deae	deābus
Accusative	deam	deās
Ablative	deā	deābus
Vocative	dea	deae

Descendants

• Spanish: dea

Further reading

• “dea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Lombard

Alternative forms

• deja
• deessa (archaic, poetic)

Etymology

From Latin dea.

Pronunciation

• (Western, Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛa/
• Hyphenation: de‧a

Noun

1. (Classical Milanese Orthography spelling) Alternative form of deja

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲe.a/

Noun

dea

1. genitive plural of día (“god”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dea	dea pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndea
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de̯a]

Verb

dea

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of da

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdea/ [ˈd̪e.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: de‧a

Noun

dea f (plural deas)

1. (poetic) goddess

   Synonym: diosa

Further reading

• “dea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tabaru

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈde.a]

Noun

dea

1. father

   'o 'esa de 'o dea ― mother and father

References

• Edward A. Kotynski (1988), “Tabaru phonology and morphology”, in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, volume 32, Summer Institute of Linguistics

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Transylvanian Saxon

Etymology

Ultimately comes from Proto-Germanic þu.

Pronoun

dea

1. You

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian dād, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

dea

1. dead

Inflection

Inflection of dea
uninflected	dea
inflected	deade
comparative	deader
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		dea	deader	it deadst it deadste
indefinite	c. sing.	deade	deadere	deadste
	n. sing.	dea	deader	deadste
	plural	deade	deadere	deadste
definite		deade	deadere	deadste
partitive		deads	deaders	—

Derived terms

• deadzje

Further reading

• “dea (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011