boia
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French buie.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boia f (plural boies)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “boia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
ChibchaEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boia
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
boia
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French buie, from Frankish *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“sign”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boia f (plural boias)
Derived termsEdit
- aboiar (“to float”)
Further readingEdit
- “boia” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “boia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “boia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “boia” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Guinea-Bissau CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Portuguese boiar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bóia.
VerbEdit
boia
- to float (in the water)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boia m (invariable)
- executioner
- hangman (word game)
- villain, scoundrel
- 1995, Niccolò Ammaniti, Rane e girini:
- Non erano soltanto motociclisti di periferia, ma boia insensibili assetati del suo sangue.
- They weren't just bikers from the outskirts, but ruthless executioners thirsty for his blood.
Further readingEdit
- boia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
AnagramsEdit
KabuverdianuEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- boiá (Barlavento)
EtymologyEdit
From Portuguese boiar.
VerbEdit
boia
ReferencesEdit
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
- Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek βοείη (boeíē, “ox hide”), from βοῦς (boûs).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boia f (genitive boiae); first declension
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | boia | boiae |
Genitive | boiae | boiārum |
Dative | boiae | boiīs |
Accusative | boiam | boiās |
Ablative | boiā | boiīs |
Vocative | boia | boiae |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Ayto, Word Origins
Further readingEdit
- boia 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)
PortugueseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Old French buie, boye, boue, from Frankish *baukn.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: boi‧a
NounEdit
boia f (plural boias)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Swahili: boya
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
boia
- inflection of boiar:
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بویا (boya).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
boia f (plural boiele)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of boia
Further readingEdit
- boia in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)