zea

Clipping of English Zealandic. Possibly from English Zealand, a province of the Netherlands.

zea

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Zealandic terms

• IPA^(key): /ˈziː.ə/

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

• EAZ

zea

1. absolutive singular of ze

From translingual Zea, from Latin zēa (“spelt”), 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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá, “spelt”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈzeː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡zɛː.a]

zēa f (genitive zēae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• → English: zea, ⇒ zein
• → Italian: zea
• → 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 sæ, from Old English sǣ (“sea, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”).

• IPA^(key): /zɛː/

zea

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

     Th' mucha zea sthroan; Zea greoun.

     The great sea-strand; Sea ground.

• zea greoun
• zea sthroan

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published 1867, page 80