# marea
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈɾea/ [maˈɾe.a]
* Rhymes: -ea
* Hyphenation: ma‧re‧a

### Noun

marea f (plural marees)
* tide

## Catalan
### Etymology

Compare Occitan marèa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [məˈɾe.ə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [maˈɾe.a]

### Noun

marea f (plural marees)
* tide

#### Derived terms

* marea alta
* marea baixa
* marea entrant
* marea morta
* marea roja
* marea sortint
* marea vermella
* marea viva

### Further reading

* “marea” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “marea”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “marea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “marea” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From French marée.

#### Alternative forms

* maré

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈɾɛ.a̝/

#### Noun

marea f (plural mareas)
* tide
* a fishing campaign and the amount of fish captured during it
    Tivemos unha boa marea e collimos moito peixe. ― We had a good campaign and captured a lot of fish.

##### Derived terms

* marea alta
* marea baixa
* marea viva

##### Related terms

* mar

#### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “marea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

marea
* inflection of marear:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Interlingua
### Noun

marea (plural mareas)
* tide

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈrɛ.a/
* Rhymes: -ɛa
* Hyphenation: ma‧rè‧a

### Noun

marea f (plural maree)
* tide
* (figurative) blizzard (large amount of paperwork)
* pile, heap
* (figurative) shoal (large number of persons or things)

#### Synonyms

* moltitudine
* orda

#### Related terms

* bassa marea
* alta marea

### References

* ↑ marea in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* amare, amerà

## Kurudu
### Noun

marea
* water

### References

* The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmare̯a/

### Adjective

marea
* definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of mare

### Noun

marea f
* definite nominative singular of mare: the sea
* definite accusative singular of mare: the sea

## Serui-Laut
### Noun

marea
* water

### References

* The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maˈɾea/ [maˈɾe.a]
* Rhymes: -ea
* Syllabification: ma‧re‧a

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French marée.

#### Noun

marea f (plural mareas)
* tide

##### Derived terms

* contra viento y marea
* el tiempo y la marea ni se paran ni esperan
* marea alta
* marea baja
* marea negra
* marea roja
* marear
* poza de marea

##### Related terms

* mareado
* mareo

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

marea
* inflection of marear:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “marea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10