tia
English
Alternative forms
Proper noun
tia
- Initialism of Telecommunications Industry Association.
- Initialism of This is Africa, a business newspaper.
Noun
tia (plural tias)
- (medicine) Initialism of transient ischemic attack.
Phrase
tia
- Initialism of thanks in advance.
Anagrams
Arabela
Noun
tia (pl: tiaca)
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin thia, from Ancient Greek θείᾱ (theíā).
Pronunciation
Noun
tia f (plural ties)
Derived terms
See also
Esperanto
Etymology
From ti- (demonstrative correlative prefix) + -a (correlative suffix of "kind").
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtia/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ia
- Hyphenation: ti‧a
Determiner
tia (accusative singular tian, plural tiaj, accusative plural tiajn)
- that kind of, such a (demonstrative correlative of kind)
Usage notes
When combined with ĉi, the adverbial particle of proximity, tia ĉi means this kind of.
Derived terms
- tiaaĵo, tiaĵo
See also
| interrogative | demonstrative | indefinite | universal | negative | ||
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| ki- | ti- | i- | ĉi- | neni- | ||
| kind of, sort of | -a | kia | tia | ia | ĉia | nenia |
| reason | -al | kial | tial | ial | ĉial | nenial |
| time | -am | kiam | tiam | iam | ĉiam | neniam |
| place | -e | kie | tie | ie | ĉie | nenie |
| motion | -en | kien | tien | ien | ĉien | nenien |
| manner | -el | kiel | tiel | iel | ĉiel | neniel |
| possessive | -es | kies | ties | ies | ĉies | nenies |
| demonstrative pronoun | -o | kio | tio | io | ĉio | nenio |
| amount | -om | kiom | tiom | iom | ĉiom | neniom |
| demonstrative determiner | -u | kiu | tiu | iu | ĉiu | neniu |
Hokkien
| For pronunciation and definitions of tia – see 爹 (“father; dad; old man; grandpa; granddad”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 爹). |
Ilocano
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtija/ [ˈti.ja]
- Hyphenation: ti‧a
Noun
tia (masculine tio)
Italiot Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian zia, from Latin thia.
Noun
tia f
Maori
Etymology 1
From Proto-Polynesian *tia, from Proto-Oceanic *tian, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tian (compare with Malay tian), from Proto-Austronesian *tiaN.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtia/
Noun
tia
Etymology 2
Noun
tia
Etymology 3
Noun
tia
Verb
tia
- to steer
References
- “tia” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese tia, from Late Latin thīa, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.a/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈti.ɐ/
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtiɐ/
- Rhymes: -iɐ
- Hyphenation: ti‧a
Noun
tia f (plural tias, masculine tio, masculine plural tios)
- aunt (sister of someone's father or mother, or an uncle's wife)
- (slang) aunt (colloquial term of address for an older woman)
- (slang, by extension) colloquial term of address for any female person
- (Brazil, slang) a female clerk who performs a regular activity
- tia da limpeza ― cleaning woman, janitor
Descendants
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Verb
-tia (infinitive kutia)
- to put, to place
- to apply, to bring to bear
Conjugation
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Derived terms
- Verbal derivations:
Swedish
Etymology
From the number tio (“ten”).
Noun
tia c
- a number 10 (ten)
- a person or an object by context associated with the number ten, for instance in sports and other forms of competing
- a tenth place holder
- a coin or banknote worth ten of a currency (most commonly referring to the Swedish ten kronor (SEK) coin or the now deprecated banknote)
- Synonym: guldtia
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
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| singular | indefinite | tia | tias |
| definite | tian | tians | |
| plural | indefinite | tior | tiors |
| definite | tiorna | tiornas |
See also
Anagrams
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Noun
tia • (濞, 𣈢)
- (optics) a beam or a ray
- tia nắng
- a beam of sunshine
- (phóng xạ) tia X/Rơn-ghen
- X-/Roentgen ray (radiation)
- (of liquid) a jet
- (geometry) a ray