vea

See also: Vea, véa, vẽa, and ve'a

Ese

Noun

vea

1. sun
2. day
3. time

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Estonian

Noun

vea

1. genitive singular of viga

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese vẽa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin vēna. Cognate with Portuguese veia and Spanish vena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.a̝/

Noun

vea f (plural veas)

1. (anatomy) vein
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

     Et moy rregeo tãgeo o corno que pero que era de marfil que o fendeu cõ o bafo, et al quebrantouselle as veas do pescoço et os nerueos

     And very strongly he blew the horn, but since it was made of ivory he broke it with the puff, and also he broke the veins of the neck and the nerves

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias porque se deuen cauidar de fazer en taes lugares talladuras nen queimaduras a nehua gisa

     and the aforementioned powders must be used in the [horse's] parts with nerves and entangled with veins and arteries, because one must refrain from cutting and burning those place in any way

2. (geology) vein
3. vein (a stripe or streak of a different colour or composition)

Derived terms

• vea da ouriña

Related terms

• Vieiro

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

vea n

1. (deprecated template usage) definite plural of ve

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• Homophone: veda

Noun

vea n

1. (deprecated template usage) definite plural of ve

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Old Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin vela, plural of vēlum (“sail of a ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg (“to weave a web”).

Alternative forms

• vela

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈβe.a/

Noun

vea f (plural veas)

1. (nautical) sail
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 5 (facsimile):

     baixaron a uea

     (they) lowered the sail

Etymology 2

Noun

vea f (plural veas)

1. Alternative form of vẽa

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Spanish

Verb

vea

1. inflection of ver:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

Derived from , Compare Icelandic viða (“safna viði, hlaða viði, safna að sér, búa að viðum”) (Íslensk orðsifjabók.)

Verb

1. To jump from tree to tree.

2. To get firewood.

Synonyms

• (jump between trees):