dea

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

Basque

Noun

dea

1. absolutive singular of de

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈde.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [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, 2024
• “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.

Galician

Verb

dea

1. inflection of dar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From English there.

Adverb

dea

1. there, that place

   Da ting is ova dea.

   The thing is over there.

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.^[1]

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

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,

Italian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dea f (plural dee, masculine dio)

1. goddess

   Synonym: (poetic) diva

2. (informal, acting) female star

   Synonym: diva

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Verb

dea

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

Verb

dea

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

Anagrams

• -ade, Ade

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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.

Lombard

Alternative forms

• deja
• deessa (archaic, poetic)

Etymology

From Latin dea.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dea f

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

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.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de̯a]

Verb

dea

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

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

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

Transylvanian Saxon

Etymology

Ultimately comes from Proto-Germanic þu.

Pronoun

dea

1. You

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