# dea
## Basque
### Noun

dea
* absolutive singular of de

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Latin dea.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

dea f (plural dees)
* goddess
    Synonym: deessa

#### Hypernyms

* deïtat (“deity”)

#### Hyponyms

* Dea (“Goddess”)

#### Related terms

* Dea (“Goddess”)
* déu (“god”)

### Further reading

* “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.

## Galician
### Verb

dea
* inflection of dar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Hawaiian Creole
### Etymology

From English there.

### Adverb

dea
* there, that place
    Da ting is ova dea.The thing is over there.

## Interlingua
### Noun

dea (plural deas)
* goddess
    Britannia esseva un dea minor in polytheismo romano-britannic; su depiction actual ha essite modificate pro evocar le nationalismo britannic moderne.
       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
* 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: /ˈdɛ.a/, (traditional) $^*$/ˈdɛ.a/
* Rhymes: -ɛa
* Hyphenation: dè‧a

#### Noun

dea f (plural dee, masculine dio)
* goddess
    Synonym: (poetic) diva
* (informal, acting) female star
    Synonym: diva

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɛ.a/, /ˈde.a/
* Rhymes: -ɛa, -ea
* Hyphenation: dè‧a, dé‧a

#### Verb

dea
* (obsolete) third-person singular present subjunctive of dovere

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɛ.a/
* Rhymes: -ɛa
* Hyphenation: dè‧a

#### Verb

dea
* (archaic) third-person singular present subjunctive of dare

### References

* 1 2 3 dea in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* -ade, Ade

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

dea f (genitive deae); first declension (for the masculine form, see deus)
* goddess
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.13:ecce deās vīdīBehold! I saw goddesses.

#### Declension

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 |

#### 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: /ˈdɛa/
* Hyphenation: de‧a

### Noun

dea f
* (Classical Milanese Orthography spelling) Alternative form of deja

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdʲe.a/

### Noun

dea
* genitive plural of día (“god”)

### Mutation
## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [de̯a]

### Verb

dea
* third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of da

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin dea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdea/ [ˈd̪e.a]
* Rhymes: -ea
* Syllabification: de‧a

### Noun

dea f (plural deas)
* (poetic) goddess
    Synonym: diosa

### Further reading

* “dea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

## Tabaru
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈde.a]

### Noun

dea
* 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
* You

## West Frisian
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

dea
* dead

#### Derived terms

* deadzje

#### Further reading

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

## Ye'kwana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [dea]

### Particle

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