acea

Borrowed from Arabic سَانِيَة (sāniya). Attested from the 13th century (azea). Cognate with Portuguese azenha, Spanish aceña, Catalan sínia, Basque azenia.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /aˈθea̝/

acea f (plural aceas)

1. tide mill
2. water mill with a vertical water wheel

   Synonym: muíño

If the water mill has a horizontal wheel or turbine, then it is a muíño.

• Acea
• Acea de Ama

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “azea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “acea”, 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), “acea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• "acea" in Lorenzo Fernández, Secundino, Dicionario fluvial.

From Vulgar Latin *eccum illa, feminine singular of *eccum ille, from Latin eccum + ille.

• IPA^(key): /aˈt͡ʃe̯a/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧cea

acea

1. nominative/accusative feminine singular of acel

   Synonym: (informal) aia

• această