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adasia

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Latin

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Etymology

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Unknown, possibly from Paleo-Balkan; compare Albanian dash.[1]

Noun

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adasia f (genitive adasiae); first declension

  1. An old sheep that has recently given birth to a lamb

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative adasia adasiae
genitive adasiae adasiārum
dative adasiae adasiīs
accusative adasiam adasiās
ablative adasiā adasiīs
vocative adasia adasiae

References

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  • adasia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • adasia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Kaczyńska, Elwira (2005) “Latin adasia ‘lamb’, Roumanian daş, Albanian dash”, in Linguistique Balkanique[1], volume 44, number 3, pages 247–50