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Is zea a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word zea is a Scrabble US word. The word zea is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

Z10E1A1

Is zea a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word zea is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

Z10E1A1

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3-letter words (1 found)

ZEA,

2-letter words (4 found)

AE,EA,ZA,ZE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from zea according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of zea

zea eza zae aze eaz aez

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Definitions and meaning of zea

zea

Translingual

Etymology

Possibly from English Zealand, a province of the Netherlands.

Symbol

zea

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

Noun

zea (plural zeas)

  1. Any plant of the genus Zea.

Related terms

  • zein

Basque

Noun

zea

  1. absolutive singular of ze

Italian

Etymology

From translingual Zea, from Latin zēa (“spelt”), from Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): */ˈd͡zɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Hyphenation: zè‧a

Noun

zea f (plural zee)

  1. a member of the Zea taxonomic genus

Derived terms

  • tossizeismo

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζειά (zeiá, “spelt”)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈzeː.a/, [ˈd̪͡z̪eːä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ze.a/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɛːä]

Noun

zēa f (genitive zēae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → English: zea, ⇒ zein
  • → Italian: zea
  • → Translingual: Zea

References

  • “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

Romanian

Noun

zea f (plural zele)

  1. Alternative form of za

Yola

Alternative forms

  • zee

Etymology

From Middle English see, from Old English sǣ (“sea, lake”), from Proto-West Germanic *saiwi, probably from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey-wo- (“to be fierce, afflict”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ziː/
  • Homophones: zee, zey

Noun

zea

  1. sea

Derived terms

  • zea greoun
  • zea sthroan

References

  • 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

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