-ea

From Proto-Finnic *-ëda, from Proto-Uralic *-(e)ta.

-ea (front vowel harmony variant -eä, linguistic notation -eA)

1. A suffix for making adjectives from some nouns and verbs.

   ‎kalpa- + ‎-ea → ‎kalpea (“pale”)

   ‎pyörä (“wheel”) + ‎-ea → ‎pyöreä (“round”)

• -ee (mainly Tavastian and Savonian)
• -ia (mainly Ostrobothnian, Peräpohja and southeastern)

Borrowed from Latin -ea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈea/

-ea

1. having the color of

   ‎oranjo (“orange (fruit)”) + ‎-ea → ‎oranjea (“orange (color)”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /e.a/, [eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.a/, [eä]

-ea

1. inflection of -eus:
   1. nominative/ablative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Inherited from Latin -ēre, the ending of the present active infinitive form of second conjugation verbs. Cognate with Spanish -er, Italian -ere, etc.

• IPA^(key): /e̯a/

-ea

1. A suffix forming infinitives of many verbs.

• -re

Inherited from Latin -ella.

-ea f (plural -ele, masculine -el, masculine plural -ei)

1. Used to form the feminine diminutive of a word

• -el

• IPA^(key): /ˈea/ [ˈe.a]
• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: -e‧a

-ea (non-lemma form of adjective-forming suffix)

1. female equivalent of -eo

• “-eo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

-ea

1. mid vowel variant of -ia

• IPA^(key): /ja/, /ɛː/, /æː/

-ea

1. Added to masculine nouns to denote a diminutive form.