raia
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-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 edit
raia f (plural raias)
- stripe (long, straight region of a single colour)
- border (line separating regions)
- Synonym: fronteira
- em dash (—)
- ray (fish)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
raia
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
raia f (plural raie)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- raja (Medieval)
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈrai̯.i̯a/, [ˈräi̯ːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.ja/, [ˈräːjä]
Noun edit
raia f (genitive raiae); first declension
- ray (a marine fish with a flat body)
Declension edit
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 edit
References edit
- “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, pages 512–513
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ajɐ
- Hyphenation: rai‧a
Etymology 1 edit
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 Galician-Portuguese *arraia, from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
raia f (plural raias)
- stripe
- border (the line or frontier area separating countries)
- Synonym: fronteira
- (figuratively) limit
- (colloquial) mistake
- Synonym: erro
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
raia
- inflection of raiar:
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
raia f (plural raias)
- ray (a marine fish with a flat body)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish رعایا (raya), from Arabic رَعَايَا (raʕāyā), plural of رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).
Noun edit
raia m (plural raiale)
Declension edit
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
raia (n class, plural raia) or raia (ma class, plural maraia)