different between lines vs linea

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?nz/

Noun

lines

1. plural of line

Noun

lines pl (plural only)

1. (film, theater) Words spoken by the actors.

   I have yet to learn my lines.

2. (fortifications) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
3. (shipbuilding) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
4. (education) A school punishment in which a student must repeatedly write out a line of text related to the offence (e.g. "I must be quiet in class") a specified number of times; the lines of text so written out.

   If you don't behave I'll give you lines

   I had to write out 200 lines

5. (US) The reins with which a horse is guided by its driver.

Verb

lines

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of line

Anagrams

• Niles, elsin, lenis, liens, lisne

Indonesian

Etymology

From lesbi or lesbian. Compare binan.

Noun

lines (first-person possessive linesku, second-person possessive linesmu, third-person possessive linesnya)

1. (gay slang) a lesbian woman

Latin

Verb

lin?s

1. second-person singular future active indicative of lin?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?nea (“line, thread”). Doublet of line.

Noun

linea (plural lineae)

1. (astronomy, geology) Any long marking, dark or bright, on a planet or moon's surface.

   The moons Dione and Europa have prominent lineae.

Anagrams

• A-line, Aline, Elain, Elian, Elina, Nelia, alien, aline, anile, elain, laine, liane

Italian

Etymology

From Latin l?nea (“line, thread”), from l?num (“flax”).

Pronunciation

lìnea, IPA^(key): /?li.ne.a/

Noun

linea f (plural linee)

1. line
2. dash (Morse code symbol)

Related terms

Verb

linea

1. third-person singular present indicative of lineare
2. second-person singular imperative of lineare

Anagrams

• aneli
• liane

Latin

Alternative forms

• linea (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From l?neus (“flaxen; flaxen [thing]”), from l?num (“flax”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?li?.ne.a/, [?li?neä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?li.ne.a/, [?li?n??]

Noun

l?nea f (genitive l?neae); first declension

1. A linen thread.
2. Any line, thread, or string, particularly
   1. The warp and weft during weaving.
   2. A fishing line.
   3. A plumbline.
   4. A bowstring.
   5. (geometry) A geometric line.
   6. A boundary line.
   7. A line of descent, a lineage.
   8. A line of thought; an outline, a sketch.
      • 1756, Johann Matthias Gesner:

        Primae Lineae Isagoges in Eruditionem Universalem

        Introductions of a First Line into Universal Knowledge

      • 77, Apelles:

        Nulla dies sine linea.

        Pliny the Elder's Natural History

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• l?ne?ti?
• l?neus
• l?num

Descendants

• Friulian: linie
• Italian: linea
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: llinia
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: llinya
  • Occitan: linha
• Old French:
  • French: ligne
• Old Portuguese: linna
  • Galician: liña
  • Portuguese: linha
• Old Spanish: liña
  • Spanish: liña
• Romanian: ie
• Sicilian: lìnia
• Venetian: lìnia, ligna
• ? Albanian: linjë
• ? Belarusian: ????? (linija)
• ? Bulgarian: ????? (linija)
• ? Catalan: línia
• ? Czech: linie
• ? English: linea
• ? Lithuanian: linija
• ? Macedonian: ?????? (linija)
• ? Polish: linia
  • ? Russian: ????? (linija) (or from German)
• ? Norwegian: line, linje
• ? Old High German: linia
  • Alemannic German: Linge
  • German: Linie
    • ? Danish: linje
    • ? Norwegian: linje
    • ? Russian: ????? (linija) (or from Polish)
  • Yiddish: ?????? (linye)
• ? Old Irish: líne
  • Irish: líne
• ? Old Swedish: linia
  • Swedish: linje
  • ? Finnish: linja
• ? Romanian: linie
• ? Russian: ????? (linija)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: linija

• ? Spanish: línea
  • ? Tagalog: linya
• ? Ukrainian: ????? (linija)
• ? Welsh: llinell

Adjective

l?nea

1. inflection of l?neus (“flaxen”):
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

l?ne?

1. ablative feminine singular of l?neus

References

• linea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• linea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• linea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• linea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• linea in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Noun

linea

1. Misspelling of línea.

Verb

linea

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