badia

See also: Badia

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /badia/, [ba.ð̞i.a]

Noun

badia inan

1. bay

Declension

Declension of badia (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	badia	badia	badiak
ergative	badiak	badiak	badiek
dative	badiari	badiari	badiei
genitive	badiaren	badiaren	badien
comitative	badiarekin	badiarekin	badiekin
causative	badiarengatik	badiarengatik	badiengatik
benefactive	badiarentzat	badiarentzat	badientzat
instrumental	badiaz	badiaz	badiez
inessive	badiatan	badian	badietan
locative	badiatako	badiako	badietako
allative	badiatara	badiara	badietara
terminative	badiataraino	badiaraino	badietaraino
directive	badiatarantz	badiarantz	badietarantz
destinative	badiatarako	badiarako	badietarako
ablative	badiatatik	badiatik	badietatik
partitive	badiarik	—	—
prolative	badiatzat	—	—

Descendants

• → Latin: baia
  • Asturian: badea
  • Catalan: badia
  • French: baie
    • Dutch: baai
      • Afrikaans: baai
    • English: bay
    • Irish: bá
    • Italian: baia
    • Spanish: bahía
    • Portuguese: baía
  • Galician: badía

See also

• erramu
• ereinotz
• ulu
• ulu egin
• zaunka

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈði.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [baˈði.a]

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Etymology 1

Probably from French baie influenced by badar or badiu.

Noun

badia f (plural badies)

1. bay (body of water mostly surrounded by land)

Etymology 2

From Old Catalan vedilla, from Latin vītīcula.

Noun

badia f (plural badies)

1. strand, filament

Related terms

• vidiella

Further reading

• “badia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “badia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “badia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “badia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Alternative forms

• abadia, abbadia (archaic)

Etymology

From Late Latin abbātīa, derived from Latin abbās (“abbot”). Doublet of abbazia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈdi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: ba‧dì‧a

Noun

badia f (plural badie)

1. abbey

   Synonym: abbazia

   • c. 1316–1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 73–77; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Ma, per salirla, mo nessun diparte
     da terra i piedi, e la regola mia
     rimasa è per danno de le carte.
     Le mura che solieno esser badia
     fatte sono spelonche […]

     But to ascend it now no one uplifts his feet from off the earth, and now my Rule below remaines for mere waste of paper. The walls that used of old to be an Abbey are changed to dens of robbers

   • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro quinto [Fifth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎^[3], published 1991, section 2:

     tornato in Firenze, tutto suo patrimonio d’Alamagna fece vendere, e ordinò e fece fare sette badie: la prima fu la Badia di Firenze a onore di santa Maria

     Having returned to Florence, he had all his property in Germany sold, and commissioned the making of seven abbeys: the first one was the abbey of Florence, in honor of St. Mary

2. (figurative) abundance; well-being

Related terms

• abate
• badessa

Further reading

• badia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Abdia, badai, biada

Latin

Adjective

badia

1. inflection of badius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

badiā

1. ablative feminine singular of badius