ceia

ceia

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of cear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin clēta.

ceia f

1. lattice

• Levi, Attilio (1927), “ceia”, in Dizionario etimologico del dialetto piemontese, Turin: Paravia, page 79.

• Homophone: Seia
• Hyphenation: cei‧a

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cẽa (“dinner (evening meal)”), from Latin cēna (“dinner (evening meal)”), from Proto-Italic *kert(e)snā, from Proto-Indo-European *kert-sna, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *sker-. Compare Galician cea, Spanish and Italian cena.

ceia f (plural ceias)

1. supper, evening meal

   Synonyms: jantar, janta

   Última Ceia ― Last Supper

   Ceia de Natal ― Christmas dinner

In most contexts jantar and janta have replaced ceia in the sense of evening meal. It is now associated with special occasions such as Christmas dinners or as a light meal taken after the jantar, usually after midnight.

• Última Ceia

• cear

• ⇒ Old Tupi: searama

ceia

1. inflection of cear:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of ceiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• ceia on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “ceia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ceia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026