# linea
## English
### Alternative forms

* línea

### Etymology

From Latin līnea (“line, thread”), via Spanish línea in reference to the unit of length, from līnum (“flax”). Doublet of line.

### Noun

linea (plural lineas or lineae)
* (astronomy, geology) Any long marking, dark or bright, on a planet or moon's surface.
    The moons Dione and Europa have prominent lineae.
* (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 1.9 mm.

#### Synonyms

* (unit of length): Spanish line, line (Spanish contexts)

#### Coordinate terms

* (unit of length): punto ($^1$⁄$_{12}$ linea), dedo (9 lineas), pulgada (12 lineas), coto (54 lineas)

#### Related terms

* linea alba
* linea nigra
* recurrent slope linea

### Anagrams

* Alien, laine, elain, anile, Aline, alien, liane, Eilan, Elian, Elina, aline, A-line, Elain, Nelia

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈli.ne.a/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -inea
* Hyphenation: lì‧ne‧a

### Etymology 1

From Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”).

#### Noun

linea f (plural linee, diminutive lineétta or lineìna)
* line
* dash (Morse code symbol)

##### Related terms

* a grandi linee
* allineare
* autolinea
* capolinea
* delineare
* guardalinee
* in linea
* in linea di massima
* in linea di principio
* in linea generale
* in linea teorica
* linea d'arrivo
* lineamento
* lineare
* lineetta
* lino
* pentalineo

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

linea
* inflection of lineare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* aleni, aneli, liane

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* linea (Medieval Latin)

### Etymology

From līneus (“flaxen; flaxen [thing]”), from līnum (“flax”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈliː.ne.a/, [ˈlʲiːneä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈli.ne.a/, [ˈliːneä]

### Noun

līnea f (genitive līneae); first declension
* A linen thread.
* Any line, thread, or string, particularly
** The warp and weft during weaving.
** A fishing line.
** A plumbline.
** A bowstring.
** (geometry) A geometric line [translating γραμμή (grammḗ)].
** A boundary line.
** A line of descent, a lineage.
** A line of thought; an outline, a sketch.
*** 1756, Johann Matthias Gesner, (Please provide the book title or journal name):Primae Lineae Isagoges in Eruditionem UniversalemIntroductions of a First Line into Universal Knowledge
*** 77, Apelles:
    Nulla dies sine linea.
       Pliny the Elder's Natural History

#### Declension

First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | līnea | līneae |
| Genitive | līneae | līneārum |
| Dative | līneae | līneīs |
| Accusative | līneam | līneās |
| Ablative | līneā | līneīs |
| Vocative | līnea | līneae |

#### Derived terms

* līneālis
* līneāmentum
* līneāris
* līneārius
* līneō
* līneola

#### Related terms

* līneātiō
* līneus
* līnum

#### Descendants

* Friulian: linie
* Italian: linea
* Old Leonese:
** Asturian: llinia
* Old Occitan:
** Catalan: llinya
** Occitan: linha
* Old French:
** French: ligne
* Old Galician-Portuguese: linna
** Galician: liña
** Portuguese: linha
* Old Spanish: liña
** Spanish: liña
* Romanian: ie
* Sicilian: ligna, linja
* Venetian: lìnia, ligna
* → Albanian: linjë
* → Belarusian: лінія (linija)
* → Bulgarian: линия (linija)
* → Catalan: línia
* → Czech: linie
* → English: linea
* → Lithuanian: linija
* → Macedonian: линија (linija)
* → Polish: linia, linija (Middle Polish), linja (pre-reform orthography (1936))
** →? Russian: линия (linija) (or from German)
* → Norwegian: line, linje
* → Old High German: linia
** Alemannic German: Linge
** German: Linie
*** → Danish: linje
*** → Norwegian: linje
*** → Russian: ли́ния (línija) (or from Polish)
** Yiddish: ליניע (linye)
* → Old Irish: líne
** Irish: líne
* → Old Swedish: linia
** Swedish: linje
** → Finnish: linja
* → Romanian: linie
* → Russian: линия (linija)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: линија
    Latin script: linija
* → Sicilian: lìnia
* → Spanish: línea
** → Tagalog: linya
* → Ukrainian: лінія (linija)
* → Welsh: llinell

### Adjective

līnea
* inflection of līneus (“flaxen”):
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

līneā
* ablative feminine singular of līneus

### References

* “linea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “linea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* linea 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)
* linea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “linea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līnum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 344

## Spanish
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liˈnea/ [liˈne.a]
* Rhymes: -ea
* Syllabification: li‧ne‧a

#### Verb

linea
* inflection of linear:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlinea/ [ˈli.ne.a]
* Syllabification: li‧ne‧a

#### Noun

linea
* Misspelling of línea.

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈlinea/ [ˌliː.n̪ɛˈa], /ˈlinia/ [ˈliː.ɲɐ]
* Rhymes: -inea, -inia
* Syllabification: li‧ne‧a

### Noun

líneá (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜈᜒᜌ)
* Alternative form of linya