zea

Possibly from English Zealand, a province of the Netherlands.

zea

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Zealandic.

zea (plural zeas)

1. Any plant of the genus Zea.
   • 1948, Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper, Continuous Flower Growing, page 83:

     […] and here the types used are principally the dwarf ones; and those plants of a greater height with decorative foliage like the zeas or variegated maize, which are used to produce the effect of sub-tropical bedding.

• zein

zea

1. absolutive singular of ze

From translingual Zea, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá).

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: zè‧a

zea f (plural zee)

1. a member of the Zea taxonomic genus

• tossizeismo

From Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá, “spelt”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzeː.a/, [ˈd̪͡z̪eːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ze.a/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɛːä]

zēa f (genitive zēae); first declension

1. A type of grain; spelt (Triticum spelta)
2. emmer wheat.
3. A type of rosemary.

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• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• → Translingual: Zea

• “zea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “zea”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

zea f (plural zele)

1. Alternative form of za

• zee

From Middle English ze, from Old English sǣ (“sea, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”).

zea

1. sea
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Th' mucha zea sthroan; Zea greoun.

     The great sea-strand; Sea ground.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 80