gleba

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

gleba (plural glebae)

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

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

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

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

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

gleba f (plural glebe)

1. a clod of earth

• belga

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɫeː.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡlɛː.ba]

glēba f (genitive glēbae); first declension

1. alternative form of glaeba

First-declension noun.

• “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.

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɛ.ba/

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• Rhymes: -ɛba
• Syllabification: gle‧ba

gleba f

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

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

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

• Rhymes: -ɛbɐ
• Hyphenation: glé‧ba

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

Learned borrowing from Latin glēba.

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

gleba f (plural glebas)

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

• agro
• glebe (English cognate)

• “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], 10 December 2024