dea

dea

1. absolutive singular of de

From Latin dea.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈde.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈde.a]
• Hyphenation: de‧a

dea f (plural dees)

1. goddess

   Synonym: deessa

• deïtat (“deity”)

• Dea (“Goddess”)

• Dea (“Goddess”)
• déu (“god”)

• “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.

dea

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

From English there.

dea

1. there, that place

   Da ting is ova dea.

   The thing is over there.

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.

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,

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.a/, (traditional) ^*/ˈdɛ.a/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: dè‧a

dea f (plural dee, masculine dio)

1. goddess

   Synonym: (poetic) diva

2. (informal, acting) female star

   Synonym: diva

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.a/, /ˈde.a/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛa, -ea
• Hyphenation: dè‧a, dé‧a

dea

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.a/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: dè‧a

dea

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

• -ade, Ade

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

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

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.

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

• Spanish: dea

• “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.

• deja
• deessa (archaic, poetic)

From Latin dea.

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

dea f

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲe.a/

dea

1. genitive plural of día (“god”)

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.

• IPA^(key): [de̯a]

dea

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

From Latin dea.

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

dea f (plural deas)

1. (poetic) goddess

   Synonym: diosa

• “dea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

• IPA^(key): [ˈde.a]

dea

1. father

   'o 'esa de 'o dea ― mother and father

• 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

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

dea

1. You

From Old Frisian dād, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

dea

1. dead

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	—

• deadzje

• “dea (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dea
Brazilian standard	dea
New Tribes	dea

• IPA^(key): [dea]

dea

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