badia

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• IPA^(key): /badia/ [ba.ð̞i.a]
• Rhymes: -ia, -a
• Hyphenation: ba‧di‧a

badia inan

1. bay

• → Latin: baia, *badia
  • Asturian: badea
  • Catalan: badia
  • French: baie
    • Dutch: baai
      • Afrikaans: baai
    • English: bay
    • Irish: bá
    • Italian: baia
    • Spanish: bahía
    • Portuguese: baía
  • Galician: badía

• erramu
• ereinotz
• ulu
• ulu egin
• zaunka

• “badia”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “badia”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈði.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈði.a]

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Probably from French baie influenced by badar or badiu.

badia f (plural badies)

1. bay (body of water mostly surrounded by land)

From Old Catalan vedilla, from Latin vītīcula.

badia f (plural badies)

1. strand, filament

• vidiella

• “badia”, 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
• “badia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “badia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “badia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• abadia, abbadia (archaic)

From Late Latin abbātīa, derived from Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbazia.

• IPA^(key): /baˈdi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: ba‧dì‧a

badia f (plural badie)

1. abbey

   Synonym: abbazia

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 73–77; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ma, per salirla, mo nessun diparte
     da terra i piedi, e la regola mia
     rimasa è per danno de le carte.
     Le mura che solieno esser badia
     fatte sono spelonche […]

     But to ascend it now no one uplifts his feet from off the earth, and now my Rule below remaines for mere waste of paper. The walls that used of old to be an Abbey are changed to dens of robbers

   • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro quinto [Fifth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎^[1], published 1991, section 2:

     tornato in Firenze, tutto suo patrimonio d’Alamagna fece vendere, e ordinò e fece fare sette badie: la prima fu la Badia di Firenze a onore di santa Maria

     Having returned to Florence, he had all his property in Germany sold, and commissioned the making of seven abbeys: the first one was the abbey of Florence, in honor of St. Mary

2. (figurative) abundance; well-being

• abate
• badessa

• badia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Abdia, badai, biada

badia

1. inflection of badius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

badiā

1. ablative feminine singular of badius