dea

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dea"

Akan

Noun

dea

1. Used in the singular with a possessive pronoun to form constructions equivalent to English possessive pronouns and constructions.

   me dea ― mine

   wo dea ― your, thine

   ne dea ― his, hers

   yɛn dea ― ours

   mo dea ― yours, y'all's

   wɔn dea ― theirs

Basque

Noun

dea

1. absolutive singular of de

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin dea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈde̞.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈde.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dea”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “dea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “dea”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

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.^WP

   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 deivā, from Proto-Italic *deiwā.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈde.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛː.a]

Noun

dea f (genitive deae); first declension (for the masculine form, see deus)

1. goddess
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.13:

     ecce deās vīdī

     Behold! I saw goddesses.

Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ābus).

	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): /ˈd̠ʲe.a/

Noun

dea

1. genitive plural of día (“god”)

Mutation

Mutation of dea

radical	lenition	nasalization
dea	dea pronounced with /ðʲ-/	ndea

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de̯a]

Verb

dea

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdea/ [ˈd̪e.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: de‧a

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dyew-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *deywós

Proto-Italic *deiwos

Proto-Italic *deiwā

Old Latin deivā

Latin dea

Spanish dea

From Latin dea.

Noun

dea f (plural deas)

1. (poetic) goddess

   Synonym: diosa

Further reading

• “dea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026

Etymology 2

Interjection

dea

1. alternative form of ndea

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

Inherited from Old High German dū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Pronoun

dea

1. You

West Frisian

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian dāth, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz.

Noun

dea m

1. death

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dea
Brazilian standard	dea
New Tribes	dea

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dea]

Particle

dea

1. alternative form of de'a (“still, again, at the same time or place”)