linea

See also: línea and lineá

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin līnea (“line, thread”). Doublet of line.

Noun

linea (plural lineae)

1. (astronomy, geology) Any long marking, dark or bright, on a planet or moon's surface.

   The moons Dione and Europa have prominent lineae.

Anagrams

• A-line, Aline, Elain, Elian, Elina, Nelia, alien, aline, anile, elain, laine, liane

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin līnea (“line, thread”), from līnum (“flax”).

Pronunciation

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lìnea, IPA^(key): /ˈlinea/

Noun

linea f (plural linee)

1. line
2. dash (Morse code symbol)

Related terms

• a grandi linee
• allineare
• autolinea
• capolinea
• delineare
• guardalinee
• in linea
• in linea di massima

• in linea generale
• in linea di principio
• in linea teorica
• linea d'arrivo
• lineamento
• lineare
• lineetta
• lino

Verb

linea

1. third-person singular present indicative of lineare
2. second-person singular imperative of lineare

Anagrams

• aneli
• liane

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Latin

Alternative forms

• linea (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From līneus (“flaxen; flaxen [thing]”), from līnum (“flax”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.ne.a/, [ˈlʲiːneä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ne.a/, [ˈliːneä]

Noun

līnea f (genitive līneae); first declension

1. A linen thread.
2. Any line, thread, or string, particularly
   1. The warp and weft during weaving.
   2. A fishing line.
   3. A plumbline.
   4. A bowstring.
   5. (geometry) A geometric line.
   6. A boundary line.
   7. A line of descent, a lineage.
   8. A line of thought; an outline, a sketch.
      • 1756, Johann Matthias Gesner:

        Primae Lineae Isagoges in Eruditionem Universalem

        Introductions of a First Line into Universal Knowledge

      • 77, Apelles:

        Nulla dies sine linea.

        Pliny the Elder's Natural History

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līnea	līneae
Genitive	līneae	līneārum
Dative	līneae	līneīs
Accusative	līneam	līneās
Ablative	līneā	līneīs
Vocative	līnea	līneae

Derived terms

• līneālis
• līneāmentum
• līneāris
• līneārius
• līneō
• līneola

 

Related terms

• līneātiō
• līneus
• līnum

Descendants

• Friulian: linie
• Italian: linea
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: llinia
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: llinya
  • Occitan: linha
• Old French:
  • French: ligne
• Old Galician-Portuguese: linna
  • Galician: liña
  • Portuguese: linha
• Old Spanish: liña
  • Spanish: liña
• Romanian: ie
• Sicilian: lìnia
• Venetian: lìnia, ligna
• → Albanian: linjë
• → Belarusian: лінія (linija)
• → Bulgarian: линия (linija)
• → Catalan: línia
• → Czech: linie
• → English: linea
• → Lithuanian: linija
• → Macedonian: линија (linija)
• → Polish: linia, linija (Middle Polish), linja (pre-reform orthography (1936))
  • →? Russian: линия (linija) (or from German)
• → Norwegian: line, linje
• → Old High German: linia
  • Alemannic German: Linge
  • German: Linie
    • → Danish: linje
    • → Norwegian: linje
    • → Russian: ли́ния (línija) (or from Polish)
  • Yiddish: ליניע (linye)
• → Old Irish: líne
  • Irish: líne
• → Old Swedish: linia
  • Swedish: linje
  • → Finnish: linja
• → Romanian: linie
• → Russian: линия (linija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: линија

  Latin script: linija

• → Spanish: línea
  • → Tagalog: linya
• → Ukrainian: лінія (linija)
• → Welsh: llinell

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) līnea

1. inflection of līneus (“flaxen”):
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) līneā

1. ablative feminine singular of līneus

References

• “linea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “linea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• linea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• linea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “linea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Spanish

Noun

linea

1. Misspelling of línea.

Verb

linea

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of linear.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of linear.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of linear.