gleba

See also: glebą

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glēba (“lump, mass”). Doublet of glebe.

Noun

gleba (plural glebae)

1. (mycology) The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.

References

• “gleba”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Gable, Gebal, bagel, gabel, gable, galbe

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.ba/
• Rhymes: -ɛba
• Hyphenation: glè‧ba

Noun

gleba f (plural glebe)

1. a clod of earth

Anagrams

• belga

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡleː.ba/, [ˈɡɫ̪eːbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡle.ba/, [ˈɡlɛːbä]

Noun

glēba f (genitive glēbae); first declension

1. Alternative form of glaeba

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	glēba	glēbae
genitive	glēbae	glēbārum
dative	glēbae	glēbīs
accusative	glēbam	glēbās
ablative	glēbā	glēbīs
vocative	glēba	glēbae

References

• “gleba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gleba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "gleba", 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)
• gleba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.ba/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛba
• Syllabification: gle‧ba

Noun

gleba f

1. soil
2. (colloquial) bail, wipeout; a fall, especially during a sports activity
3. (mycology) gleba

Declension

Declension of gleba

	singular	plural
nominative	gleba	gleby
genitive	gleby	gleb
dative	glebie	glebom
accusative	glebę	gleby
instrumental	glebą	glebami
locative	glebie	glebach
vocative	glebo	gleby

Derived terms

(adjectives):

• bezglebowy
• glebowy

(verb):

• glebnąć

Further reading

• gleba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gleba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.bɐ/ [ˈɡlɛ.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -ɛbɐ
• Hyphenation: glé‧ba

Noun

gleba f (plural glebas)

1. arable land; soil

   Synonym: torrão

2. (by extension) a part of a territory that still needs to be judicially divided
3. one's own place of origin; motherland

   Synonym: pátria

4. a terrain that has not been urbanized
5. a terrain containing ores
6. (historical) feud

   Synonym: feudo

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡleba/ [ˈɡle.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -eba
• Syllabification: gle‧ba

Noun

gleba f (plural glebas)

1. clod (lump of earth)
2. arable land; soil

See also

• agro
• glebe (English cognate)

Further reading

• “gleba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10