marea

See also: mareá

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɾea/, [maˈɾe.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: ma‧re‧a

Noun

marea f (plural marees)

1. tide

Catalan

Etymology

Compare Occitan marèa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈɾe.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [maˈɾe.a]

Noun

marea f (plural marees)

1. tide

Derived terms

• marea alta
• marea baixa
• marea entrant
• marea morta
• marea roja
• marea sortint
• marea vermella
• marea viva

 

Further reading

• “marea” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “marea”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “marea” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “marea” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology 1

From French marée.

Alternative forms

• maré

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɾɛ.a̝/

Noun

marea f (plural mareas)

1. tide
2. a fishing campaign and the amount of fish captured during it

   Tivemos unha boa marea e collimos moito peixe. ― We had a good campaign and captured a lot of fish.

Derived terms

• marea alta
• marea baixa
• marea viva

Related terms

• mar

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “marea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “marea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “marea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

marea

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

Interlingua

Noun

marea (plural mareas)

1. tide

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈrɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: ma‧rè‧a

Noun

marea f (plural maree)

1. tide
2. (figurative) blizzard (large amount of paperwork)
3. pile, heap
4. (figurative) shoal (large number of persons or things)

Synonyms

• moltitudine
• orda

Related terms

• bassa marea
• alta marea

Anagrams

• amare, amerà

Kurudu

Noun

marea

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmare̯a/

Adjective

marea

1. definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of mare

Noun

marea f

1. definite nominative singular of mare: the sea
2. definite accusative singular of mare: the sea

Serui-Laut

Noun

marea

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈɾea/ [maˈɾe.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: ma‧re‧a

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French marée.

Noun

marea f (plural mareas)

1. tide

Derived terms

• contra viento y marea
• el tiempo y la marea ni se paran ni esperan
• marea alta
• marea baja
• marea negra
• marea roja
• marear
• poza de marea

 

Related terms

• mareado
• mareo

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

marea

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

Further reading

• “marea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014