alea

Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ālea.

Nomen

alea f (plural alee)

1. risk
2. uncertainty

Related terms

• aleatorio

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Latin

Etymology

Originally "pivot-bone" or "joint-bone," since bones were used as early dice; from axis.

Pronunciation

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Nomen

1. (games) a die
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum divi Iuli 33:

     Caesar: ... "Iacta alea est", inquit.

     Caesar said ... "the die is cast".

2. (games) any game involving dice
3. (gambling) the game of chance

Derived terms

• āleāris
• āleārius
• āleātor

• āleātōrium
• āleātōrius
• āleō

Descendants

• Italian: alea

Nomen

(deprecated template usage) āleā

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) ablative singular of ālea

References

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

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Romanian

Etymology

From ale, from Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈa.le̯a/

Determiner

alea

1. Template:ro-adj-form of- those
2. Template:ro-adj-form of

Pronoun

alea

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) feminine plural of ăla those ones

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Spanish

Verb

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of alear.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of alear.