caia

caia

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

caia f

1. quail

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaj.ja]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.ja]

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

caia f (genitive caiae); first declension

1. A cudgel

First-declension noun.

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

• “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.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

caia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of caium

• Rhymes: -ajɐ
• Hyphenation: cai‧a

caia

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

caia

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