alga

From Latin alga.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.ɡə/

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alga (plural algae)

1. (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
   • 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.

• Algaes is a non-standard plural.

• (photosynthetic aquatic organism): seaweed; green alga (Chlorophyta and Charophyta) and red alga (Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta) in Plantae); brown alga (Phaeophyceae) and yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae), Haptophyta, and Cryptomonada in Chromista), and blue-green alga (Cyanobacteria)
• microalga
• golden alga
• ice alga
• snow alga

• Algae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Gaal, Gala, agal, gala

Inherited from Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈal.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈal.ɣa]

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alga f (plural algues)

1. alga

• “alga”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalka/
• Rhymes: -alka

alga f (genitive singular algu, plural algur)

1. alga

From Latin alga.

• Hyphenation: al‧ga

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

• alga parda
• alga verde
• alga vermella

• “alga”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from English alga, from Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalˠ(ə)ɡə/

alga m (genitive singular alga, nominative plural algaí)

1. (biology) alga

   Synonym: feamainn

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “alga”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm=

From Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -alɡa
• Hyphenation: àl‧ga

alga f (plural alghe)

1. seaweed

• alga in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• alga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• gala

Of unknown origin, though probably a foreign substrate loanword related to ulva (“various grass-like or rush-like aquatic plants”). Note also similar dubiously-related forms in Baltic and Germanic with connotations of filth and dirtiness, including Lithuanian el̃mės, almens (“ichor, sanies”), (dialectal) Norwegian ul (“moldy”), olga (“to loathe”), elgja (“to fell like vomiting”), ulma (“to get moldy”), Middle Low German olm, ulm (“rottenness (esp. of wood)”), and Dutch uilig (“moldy (of wood)”).^[1] These terms have been tentatively linked to a Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *alǵ- (“to be dirty, be slimy; frog; duckweed”); other similar forms include dialectal Norwegian alka (“to dirty, soil”), Norwegian ulk (“frog, slime”), Low German ulk (“frog”). That said, it is possible that the Baltic and Germanic are not related to the Latin, or that all the terms derive from the same substrate.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaɫ.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.ɡa]

alga f (genitive algae); first declension

1. Seaweed; plants that grow in freshwater.
2. (figuratively) Something of little worth.

First-declension noun.

• algensis
• algōsus

• “alga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *algā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elgʷʰ-.

alga f (4th declension)

1. salary, wage
2. reward
3. pay

   algu saraksts ― pay bill

• algojums
• atalgojums
• atmaksa
• atlīdzinājums
• atlīdzība
• gājiens
• izpeļņa
• maksa
• peļņa
• samaksa
• uzturs

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *algā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elgʷʰ-.^[1] Cognate with Latvian àlga (“salary”), Old Prussian ālgas (“salary”, Gsg.), Ancient Greek ἀλφή (alphḗ, “gain, profit”), Sanskrit अर्घ (arghá, “worth, value, price”).^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): [ɐɫ̪ˈɡɐ]

algà f (plural al̃gos) stress pattern 4

1. pay, salary, wage

• “alga”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• “alga”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈalɡa/ (Milanese)

alga f

1. seaweed

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alga f (plural algas)

1. seaweed

From Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalɡa/

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga, seaweed
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50r:

     […] Et la ſu olor es como de alga marina. ⁊ dend toma eſte nõbre

     […] Its smell is like that of seaweed, thus the name it has been given.

• alguenno

• Spanish: alga

Borrowed from German Alge or French algue,^[1] from Latin alga.^[2] First attested in 1619.^[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -alɡa
• Syllabification: al‧ga

alga f

1. alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms)

   Synonym: glon

   Hypernym: wodorost

   na bazie alg ― basedn on algae

   algi morskie ― sea/marine algae

   sproszkowane algi ― powdered algae

   nawilżające algi ― moisturizing algae

   brunatne algi ― brown algae

   zielone algi ― green algae

   niebieskie algi ― blue algae

   czerwone algi ― red algae

   lecznicze algi ― healing/therapeutic/medicinal algae

   hodowla alg ― algae culture/cultivation

   uprawa alg ― algae cultivation/growth/growing

   gatunek alg ― a species of algae

Usually in the plural.

• alga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• alga in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

From Latin alga.

• (Caipira Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈaɻɡa]
• Homophone: auga (Brazil)
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alɡɐ, (Brazil) -awɡɐ
• Hyphenation: al‧ga

alga f (plural algas)

1. (botany) alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms similar to plants or bacteria)
2. seaweed (any marine plant)

Borrowed from Latin alga.

ȃlga f (Cyrillic spelling а̑лга)

1. alga

Inherited from Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalɡa/ [ˈal.ɣ̞a]

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• Rhymes: -alɡa
• Syllabification: al‧ga

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

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

Borrowed from Spanish alga, from Latin alga.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalɡa/ [ˈʔal.ɡɐ]
• Rhymes: -alɡa
• Syllabification: al‧ga

alga (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜄ) (biology)

1. alga

• “alga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 24