raia

See also: Raia and raía

Galician

Etymology

From Old 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)

stripe (long, straight region of a single colour)
border (line separating regions)
em dash (—)
ray (fish)

Synonyms

(border): fronteira

Related terms

raiar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin raia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈra.ja/
Rhymes: -aja
Hyphenation: rà‧ia

Noun

raia f (plural raie)

ray, skate (fish)
Synonym: razza

Anagrams

-aria, arai, aria

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) IPA^(key): /ˈrai̯.i̯a/, [ˈräi̯ːä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ja/, [ˈräːjä]

Noun

raia f (genitive raiae); first declension

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

Catalan: rajada
Old French: raie
- → Middle English: raye
  - 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, page 512–513

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/ [ˈhaɪ̯.ɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/ [ˈχaɪ̯.ɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.a/ [ˈhaɪ̯.a]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/

Rhymes: -ajɐ
Hyphenation: rai‧a

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 Portuguese *arraia, from Arabic رَعِيَّة‎ (raʿiyya).

Alternative forms

arraia

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

stripe
border (the line or frontier area separating countries)
Synonym: fronteira
(figuratively) limit
(colloquial) mistake
Synonym: erro

Derived terms

raiano

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

raia

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

Etymology 3

From Latin raia.

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish رعایا‎ (raya), from Arabic رَعَايَا‎ (raʿāyā), plural of رَعِيَّة‎ (raʿiyya).

Noun

raia m (plural raiale)

rayah

Declension

Declension of raia

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) raia	raiaul	(niște) raiale	raialei
genitive/dative	(unui) raia	raiaului	(unor) raiale	raialelor
vocative	raiaule		raialelor

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَعِيَّة‎ (raʿiyya).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

citizen
Synonym: mwananchi
subject (in a monarchy)

Derived terms

uraia