alea

See also: aleá and aléa

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 (via a form *axlea).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.le.a/, [ˈäːɫ̪eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.le.a/, [ˈäːleä]

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

Synonyms

• (die): cubus

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
• “alea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alea 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)
• alea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “alea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “alea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alea”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “alea”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “alea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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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

Synonyms

• acele

Pronoun

alea

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