alea

alea

See also: aleá, aléa, Alea, and ALEA

Finnish

Noun

alea

1. partitive singular of ale

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ālea.

Noun

alea f (plural alee)

1. risk
2. uncertainty

Related terms

• aleatorio

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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

1. (games) a die
   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum divi Iuli.33:

     Caesar: ... "Iacta alea est", inquit.

     Caesar said ... "the die is cast".

2. (games) any game involving dice
3. (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

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

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.le̯a/

Determiner

alea

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of ăla: those

   Synonym: acele

Pronoun

alea

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

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Spanish

Verb

alea

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