different between tears vs teas

English

Pronunciation

Noun and verb related to the liquid from the eyes:

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??z/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ti??z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z

Noun and verb related to rending or ripping:

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??z/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??z/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /te??z/

Noun

tears

1. plural of tear
2. viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting

Verb

tears

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

Anagrams

• 'earts, -aster, Aters, Sater, TASer, Taser, Tesar, arets, arste, aster, earst, rates, reast, resat, setar, stare, stear, tares, tarse, taser, teras

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?z/
• Rhymes: -i?z
• Homophones: tease, tees

Noun

teas

1. plural of tea

Verb

teas

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

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, seta, tase

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”), from Proto-Celtic *texstus, from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“hot”). Cognate with Welsh tes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?as?/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /t?æs?/

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teasa)

1. heat, warmth
2. passion
3. feverishness

Declension

Synonyms

• (heat, warmth): teocht

Derived terms

• teas adamhach (“atomic heat”)
• teas folaigh (“latent heat”)

Related terms

• te (“hot, warm”, adjective)

Mutation

References

• "teas" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 tess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”).

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teas, no plural)

1. heat

Derived terms

• ain-teas
• teasachadh (“heating”)
• teasadair (“heater”)
• teasaich (“heat (up)”)
• teas-mheidh (“thermometer”)

Related terms

• teodhachd (“temperature”)
• teth (“hot”)

Spanish

Noun

teas f

1. plural of tea