ceva

See also: Ceva, céva, ćeva, and čeva

Fijian

Etymology

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Noun

ceva

1. (meteorology) south wind, southerly wind (wind blowing from the south)

   E katakata na vanua ni liwa mai na ceva.

   The land is warm when the south wind blows.

2. (by extension) south, southward (towards the south)

   Antonym: vualiku

   E tiko ena ceva kei Suva na yanuyanu o Kadavu.

   Kadavu Island lies to the south of Suva.

Derived terms

• Bulou ni Ceva (name of a ship from Kadavu, literally “Lady of the South”)
• ceva ira (“southwest”)
• cevaceva (cool southerly wind around March)
• cevaruru (“to whirr, to buzz, to whiz, to whistle”) (of wind, insects, missiles)
• na Ceva ni Pasifika (“the South Pacific”)
• Naceva (placename in Kadavu Island, literally “south of [Viti Levu]”)
• tokalau cevaceva (“southeast trade wind, southeast”)
• vakacevaceva, vale vakacevaceva (open-sided shelter made of layered branches and leaves)
• veicevacevai (“stacked, stratified, arranged in layers”)

References

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “ceva”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎^[1], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 45

Latin

Etymology

Compare Low German Keue.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛ.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.va]

Noun

cēva f (genitive cēvae); first declension

1. A kind of small cow

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cēva	cēvae
genitive	cēvae	cēvārum
dative	cēvae	cēvīs
accusative	cēvam	cēvās
ablative	cēvā	cēvīs
vocative	cēva	cēvae

References

• “ceva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ceva”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.vɐ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.bɐ/ [ˈsɛ.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -ɛvɐ
• Hyphenation: ce‧va

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin cibus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin cibāre

Portuguese cevardeverb.

Portuguese ceva

Deverbal from cevar.

Noun

ceva f (plural cevas)

1. (agriculture) food used to fatten animals
2. (fishing) bait used to draw fish to a general area

Etymology 2

From cerveja.

Noun

ceva f (plural cevas)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) beer

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ceva

1. inflection of cevar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “ceva”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ceva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

From ce +‎ -va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃeˈva]
• Hyphenation: ce‧va

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Pronoun

ceva

1. something

Related terms

• orice
• altceva