pea
EnglishEdit
A pea plant, Pisum sativum (1).
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Back-formation from pease, originally an uncountable noun meaning "peas" that was construed as a plural, ultimately from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).
NounEdit
pea (plural peas)
- (botany) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- (cooking) The edible seed of some of these plants.
- (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
Usage notesEdit
See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from pea (noun)
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
plant
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edible seed
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”), of uncertain origin; perhaps related to Tamil தோகை (tōkai, “peacock feather”), or imitative (compare Latin paupulō (“to call as a peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau.
NounEdit
pea (plural peas)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
pea (plural peas)
Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.
NounEdit
pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of pea
| singular (ainsus) | plural (mitmus) | |
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| nominative (nimetav) | pea | pead |
| genitive (omastav) | pea | peade |
| partitive (osastav) | pead | päid |
| illative (sisseütlev) | peasse | peadesse |
| inessive (seesütlev) | peas | peades |
| elative (seestütlev) | peast | peadest |
| allative (alaleütlev) | peale | peadele |
| adessive (alalütlev) | peal | peadel |
| ablative (alaltütlev) | pealt | peadelt |
| translative (saav) | peaks | peadeks |
| terminative (rajav) | peani | peadeni |
| essive (olev) | peana | peadena |
| abessive (ilmaütlev) | peata | peadeta |
| comitative (kaasaütlev) | peaga | peadega |
AdverbEdit
pea
- almost
- Pea iga kord seisab ta seal kohas.
- He stands there almost every time.
- soon, immediately, quickly (in modern use almost always together with some other word or affix, such as kohe, õige, nii, -gi)
- Kohe pea oleme kohal.
- Soon we'll be there.
- Rändurid uinusid pea.
- The travelers fell asleep quickly.
JapaneseEdit
MaoriEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From peer.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pea f (plural peas)
SynonymsEdit
- See Thesaurus:borrachera.
VerbEdit
pea
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of peer.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peer.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peer.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of peer.
Further readingEdit
- “pea” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
SwahiliEdit
VerbEdit
-pea (infinitive kupea)
- Applicative form of -pa
