different between fabaceae vs pea

Latin

Adjective

fab?ceae

1. nominative feminine plural of fab?ceus
2. genitive feminine singular of fab?ceus
3. dative feminine singular of fab?ceus
4. vocative feminine plural of fab?ceus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Homophones: P, pee

Etymology 1

Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pisa, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek ????? (píson).

Alternative forms

• pease (archaic)

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (botany) A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
2. (cooking) The edible seed of some of these plants.
3. (Jamaican) Any of several varieties of bean.

   peas and rice

Usage notes

See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Abenaki: piz (“a pea”)
• ? Mohegan-Pequot: pish (“a pea”)
• ? Yurok: pi·š, peeesh (“a pea”)

Translations

Etymology 2

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
2. (US, Indiana, gambling) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
3. (astronomy) Ellipsis of green pea galaxy

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English p?a, p?wa (“peacock”) (compare Old English p?we (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *p?wô (“peacock”), from Latin p?v? (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (rare, archaic) a peafowl

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

pea (plural peas)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of peak

Further reading

• pea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EAP, EPA, PAE, Pae, ape

Basque

Noun

pea

1. absolutive singular of pe

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *pä?e. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.

Noun

pea (genitive pea, partitive pead)

1. head

Declension

Adverb

pea

1. almost

2. soon, immediately, quickly (in modern use almost always together with some other word or affix, such as kohe, õige, nii, -gi)

Hawaiian

Etymology

From English bear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe.a/, [?p?j?]

Noun

pea

1. bear

Derived terms

• pea ??lika (“polar bear”)
• pea p??ani (“teddy bear”)
• pea Kina (“panda bear”)

Japanese

Romanization

pea

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Maori

Etymology

From English bear.

Noun

pea

1. bear

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pea/, [?pe.a]

Etymology 1

From peer.

Noun

pea f (plural peas)

1. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pea

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of peer.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of peer.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of peer.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of peer.

Further reading

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-pea (infinitive kupea)

1. Applicative form of -pa: to give to

Conjugation

Walloon

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pea ? (plural peas)

1. (anatomy) skin