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Tia

Tia

See also: tia, TIA, tía, tiā, tỉa, and ti'a

English

Proper noun

Tia

  1. A female given name invented in the latter half of the twentieth century. It can be explained as a short form of Letitia or Venetia, or from Estonian Tiia, pet form of Dorothea.

Anagrams


Plautdietsch

Noun

Tia n (plural Tiare)

  1. animal, beast

tia

tia

See also: Tia, TIA, tía, tiā, tỉa, tiʻa, and ti'a

English

Alternative forms

Proper noun

tia

  1. Initialism of Telecommunications Industry Association.
  2. Initialism of This is Africa, a business newspaper.

Noun

tia (plural tias)

  1. (medicine) Initialism of transient ischemic attack.

Phrase

tia

  1. Initialism of thanks in advance.

Anagrams


Arabela

Noun

tia (pl: tiaca)

  1. house

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtiə/
  • Rhymes: -ia

Noun

tia f (plural ties)

  1. aunt

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Esperanto

Etymology

Esperanto ti- (demonstrative correlative prefix) + -a (correlative suffix of "kind")

Determiner

tia (accusative singular tian, plural tiaj, accusative plural tiajn)

  1. that kind of, such a (demonstrative correlative of kind)

Usage notes

When combined with ĉi, the adverbial particle of proximity, tia ĉi means this kind of.

Derived terms

  • tiaaĵo

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese tia, from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtiɐ/
  • (Brazil)
    • (General) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃia/, /ˈt͡ʃiɐ/
    • (Northeastern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtia/
  • Hyphenation: ti‧a

Noun

tia f (plural tias) (masculine tio)

  1. aunt (sister of someone's father or mother, or an uncle's wife)
  2. (slang) aunt (colloquial term of address for an older woman)
  3. (slang, by extension) colloquial term of adress for any female person
  4. (slang) a female clerk who performs a regular activity
    tia da limpeza - cleaning woman, janitor

Swedish

Etymology

From the number tio (ten)

Noun

tia c

  1. a number 10 (ten)
  2. a person or an object by context associated with the number ten, for instance in sports and other forms of competing
    • a tenth place holder
  3. a coin or banknote worth ten of a currency
    • most commonly referring to the Swedish ten kronor (SEK) coin or the now deprecated banknote

Declension

Inflection of tia 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tia tian tior tiorna
Genitive tias tians tiors tiornas

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

tia

  1. ray
  2. beam