caia

See also: Caia and caía

Galician

Verb

caia

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

Ladin

Noun

caia f

1. quail

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkai̯.i̯a/, [ˈkäi̯ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ja/, [ˈkäːjä]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“cut, hew”), whence also caedō (“I cut”).

Noun

caia f (genitive caiae); first declension

1. A cudgel

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	caia	caiae
genitive	caiae	caiārum
dative	caiae	caiīs
accusative	caiam	caiās
ablative	caiā	caiīs
vocative	caia	caiae

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: (baculus) *caiātus
  • Catalan: gaiato, gaiata
  • Galician: caxato, caxado, caxata
  • Portuguese: cajado
  • Spanish: alcayata (“meat hook, spike”) (via Hispano-Arabic الخَيَاطَة (al-ḵayāṭa)), cayado (noun)

References

• “caia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

caia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of caium

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ɐ/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ɐ/ [ˈkaɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.a/ [ˈkaɪ̯.a]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaj.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -ajɐ
• Hyphenation: cai‧a

Verb

caia

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

Verb

caia

1. inflection of caiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative