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-a en · X · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ə/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɑ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin -a (nominative second declension neuter plural suffix), plural counterpart to -um (nominative second declension neuter singular suffix).

Meanings

  1. (form-of, morpheme, plural) plural of -um
    form of -um

Deriveds

fora · bacteria · sanatoria · cilia · musea · data · memoranda · colossea · ultimata · quanta · stadia · mausolea

Source: en.wiktionary, “-a” (suffix), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
LemmaLanguagePart of speech
^enADP
~enSYM
==enCCONJ
enPUNCT
-'enPART
!enSYM
?enNOUN
?enADJ
·enSYM
'enPART
'enSYM
‘enSYM
‘ ’enPUNCT
’enPUNCT
“ ”enPUNCT
@ 3enCCONJ
@ 1enVERB
@ 1enNOUN
@ 1enADP
@ 2enSYM
@ 3enSYM
@$$enNOUN
$$$enNOUN
*enSYM
&enCCONJ
%enX
+enCCONJ
++enX
ɢenSYM
ɤenSYM
ɴenSYM
ɶenSYM
ʀenSYM
ʉenSYM
ʏenSYM
ʜenSYM
ʹenSYM
ᴀenSYM
ᴄenSYM
ᴋenSYM
ᴛenSYM
ᴢenSYM
ᵫenSYM
ᵺenSYM
‐enPUNCT
–enSYM
′enSYM
℞enSYM
∆enNOUN
◌̆enSYM

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