alea

See also: aleá, aléa, Alea, and ALEA

Finnish

Noun

alea

partitive singular of ale

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ālea.

Noun

alea f (plural alee)

risk
uncertainty

Related terms

aleatorio

Latin

Etymology

Originally "pivot-bone" or "joint-bone", since bones were used as early dice; from axis (via a form *axlea).[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.le.a/, [ˈäːɫ̪eä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.le.a/, [ˈäːleä]

Noun

ālea f (genitive āleae); first declension

(games) a die
- 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum divi Iuli.33:
  Caesar: ... "Iacta alea est", inquit.
  Caesar said ... "the die is cast".
(games) any game involving dice
(gambling) the game of chance

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ālea	āleae
Genitive	āleae	āleārum
Dative	āleae	āleīs
Accusative	āleam	āleās
Ablative	āleā	āleīs
Vocative	ālea	āleae

Synonyms

(die): cubus

Derived terms

āleāris
āleārius
āleātor
āleātōrium
āleātōrius
āleō

Descendants

Italian: alea
Spanish: álea, aleas

References

“alea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“alea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
alea 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)
alea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“alea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
“alea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“alea”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
“alea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
“alea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “aleatory”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From ale, from Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈa.le̯a/

Determiner

alea

nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those
Synonym: acele

Pronoun

alea

nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those ones

Spanish

Verb

alea

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

[1] Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “aleatory”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.