Translingual

Zea mays, ripe

Proper noun

Zea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – the teosintes, a group of large grasses that includes maize.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; Panicoideae - subfamily; Sacchareae - tribe; Tripsacinae - subtribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Zea sect. Zea, Zea sect. Luxuriantes - sections
  • Zea mays - type species; Zea diploperennis, Zea luxurians, Zea mexicana, Zea nicaraguensis, Zea perennis - other accepted species

Latin

Noun

zēa f ‎(genitive zēae); first declension

1. A type of grain; spelt; emmer wheat.
2. A type of rosemary.

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• English: zein

References

• zea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “zea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• zea in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Yola

Etymology

From Old English sǣ ‎(“sea, lake”), from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ei-u̯o- 'to be fierce, afflict'.

Noun

zea

1. sea