alea

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ālea.

Noun

alea f (plural alee)

1. risk
2. uncertainty

Related terms

• aleatorio

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Latin

Noun

ālea (genitive āleae); f, first declension

1. (games) a die
   • 121, Suetonius, Vita Divi Iuli (The Life of the deified Julius), paragraph 33

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

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

2. (games) any game involving dice
3. (gambling) the game of chance
4. vocative singular of ālea

āleā

1. ablative singular of ālea

Inflection

First declension (1).

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	ālea	āleae
genitive	āleae	āleārum
dative	āleae	āleīs
accusative	āleam	āleās
ablative	āleā	āleīs
vocative	ālea	āleae

Derived terms

• āleāris
• āleārius
• āleātor

• āleātōrium
• āleātōrius
• āleō

Descendants

• Italian: alea

References

• alea in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879

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Romanian

Etymology

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

Determiner

alea

1. feminine pluralnominative form of ăla those
2. feminine pluralaccusative form of ăla

Pronoun

alea

1. feminine plural of ăla those ones

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Spanish

Verb

alea (infinitive alear)

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of alear.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of alear.