English

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /'æl./

Noun

alga (plural algae)

1. (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

Usage notes

• Algaes is a non-standard plural.

Hyponyms

• (photosynthetic aquatic organism): seaweed; green alga (Chlorophyta and Charophyta) and red alga (Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta) in Plantae); brown alga (Phaeophyceae) and yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae), Haptophyta, and Cryptomonada in Chromista), and blue-green alga (Cyanobacteria)
• microalga

Translations

Further reading

• Algae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gaal, Gala, agal, gala

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /'al./
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /'al.?a/

Noun

alga f (plural algues)

1. alga

Further reading

• "alga" in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d'Estudis Catalans.

Faroese

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'alka/
• Rhymes: -alka

Noun

alga f (genitive singular algu, plural algur)

1. alga

Declension

Galician

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

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Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

Derived terms

• alga parda
• alga verde
• alga vermella

Further reading

• "alga" in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English alga, from Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'al?(?)/

Noun

alga m (genitive singular alga, nominative plural algaí)

1. (biology) alga

   Synonym: feamainn

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "alga" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing "alga" in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.=

Italian

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'al.?a/

Noun

alga f (plural alghe)

1. seaweed

Anagrams

• gala

Further reading

• alga in Treccani.it - Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *al?- ("to be dirty, be slimy; frog; duckweed"). Cognate with Norwegian dialectal alka ("to dirty, soil"), Norwegian ulk ("frog, slime"), Low German ulk ("frog").

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /'al.?a/, ['a.?a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /'al.?a/

Noun

alga f (genitive algae); first declension

1. Seaweed; plants that grow in freshwater.
2. (figuratively) Something of little worth.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• algensis
• alg?sus

Descendants

Latvian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

alga f (4th declension)

1. salary, wage
2. reward
3. pay

   algu saraksts - pay bill

Declension

Synonyms

• algojums
• atalgojums
• atmaksa
• atl?dzin?jums
• atl?dz?ba
• g?jiens
• izpea
• maksa
• pea
• samaksa
• uzturs

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?elg-eh?, from *h?elg-. Cognate with Latvian àlga ("salary"), Old Prussian ?lgas ("salary", Gsg.), Ancient Greek ? (alph?, "gain, profit"), Sanskrit ? (arghá, "worth, value, price").

Pronunciation

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Noun

algà f stress pattern 4

1. pay, salary

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin algam, accusative of alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ['al.?a]

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga, seaweed
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50r.

     [...] Et la su olor es como de alga marina. ¬ dend toma este nóbre

     [...] Its smell is like that of seaweed, thus the name it has been given.

Derived terms

• alguenno

Descendants

• Spanish: alga

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

alga

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): ['a]
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): ['aw?a]
• (Caipira) IPA^(key): ['aa]
• Rhymes: -aw?a

• Hyphenation: al?ga

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms similar to plants or bacteria)

Derived terms

• algáceo

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

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Noun

alga f (Cyrillic spelling ?)

1. alga

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /'al?a/, ['al?a]

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

Derived terms

Further reading

• "alga" in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.