pea
English
Etymology 1
Back-formation from pease, an original singular reinterpreted as a plural. Further from Middle English pese (“a pea”), from Old English pisa, from Latin pisa, pisum, from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson).
Alternative forms
- pease (archaic)
Noun
pea (plural peas or (archaic) pease)
- A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 277:
- Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...
- Any plant of the family Fabaceae.
- (cooking) The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.
- (cooking) The edible seed of various other pea plants.
- (Jamaica) Any of several varieties of bean.
- (MLE, in the plural) Money.
- Man's making bare peas.
- 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):
- Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
Usage notes
See usage notes at bean regarding the differences in terminology.
Derived terms
- asparagus pea
- beach pea
- black-eyed pea
- bonavist pea
- breadroot scurf pea
- butterfly pea
- Carlin pea
- chickling pea
- chick pea
- chick-pea
- Congo pea
- crowder pea
- crown pea
- Darling pea
- desert pea
- earth pea
- Egyptian pea
- field pea
- garden pea
- glory pea
- golden pea
- goober pea
- grass-pea
- grass pea
- green pea galaxy
- ground pea
- gungo pea
- hairy Darling pea
- heath pea
- issue pea
- like two peas in a pod
- milk pea
- orris pea
- partridge pea
- pea aphid
- pea bean
- pea-brain
- pea brain
- pea-brained
- pea butter
- pea cake
- pea-cake
- pea clam
- pea coat
- pea-coated
- pea comb, pea-combed
- pea crab
- pea eggplant
- pea galaxy
- pea gravel
- pea green
- pea jacket
- pea-jacketed
- pea-knuckle
- pea-knuckle war
- pea-maggot
- pea ore
- pea patch
- pea pod, peapod
- pea shingle
- pea-shooter
- peashooter
- pea-sized
- peason
- pea soup
- pea-souper
- pea-time
- pea whistle
- pigeon pea
- red pea
- rosary pea
- scurfy pea
- sea pea
- sensitive pea
- Siberian pea tree
- Siberian pea-tree
- snap pea
- snow pea
- split pea
- string pea
- Sturt's desert pea
- sugar pea
- sugar snap pea
- sweet pea
- Tangier pea
- tear up the pea patch
- wedge pea
- yellow pea
Descendants
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Etymology 2
From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.
Noun
pea (plural peas)
Translations
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Etymology 3
From Middle English pe, po, poue, pa, paue, from Old English pēa, pāwa (“peacock”) (compare Old English pāwe (“peahen”)) and Old Norse pái (“peacock”), both from Proto-Germanic *pāwô (“peacock”), from Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pau, West Frisian pau, Dutch pauw, German Pfau. Doublet of Pavo.
Derived terms
- peachick
- peachicken
- peacock
- peafowl
- peahen
- peapheasant, pea-pheasant
Basque
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pää, from Proto-Uralic *päŋe. Cognate with Finnish pää and Hungarian fej.
Pronunciation
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Declension
Declension of pea (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | pea | pead | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | pea | ||
genitive | peade | ||
partitive | pead | päid peasid | |
illative | peasse | peadesse päisse | |
inessive | peas | peades päis | |
elative | peast | peadest päist | |
allative | peale | peadele päile | |
adessive | peal | peadel päil | |
ablative | pealt | peadelt päilt | |
translative | peaks | peadeks päiks | |
terminative | peani | peadeni | |
essive | peana | peadena | |
abessive | peata | peadeta | |
comitative | peaga | peadega |
Adverb
pea (not comparable)
Further reading
- “pea”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “pea”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “pea”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- pea in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Hawaiian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpea/, [ˈpɛə]
Derived terms
- pea ʻālika (“polar bear”)
- pea pāʻani (“teddy bear”)
- pea Kina (“panda bear”)
Rarotongan
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpea/ [ˈpe.a]
- Rhymes: -ea
- Syllabification: pe‧a
Etymology 1
Deverbal from peer.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
pea
- inflection of peer:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “pea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Pronunciation
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Tahitian
Tokelauan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpe.a/
- Hyphenation: pe‧a
Etymology 1
From Proto-Polynesian *pea. Cognates include Tongan pea and Samoan pea.
Particle
pea
- Indicates a continuous action; keep on, continuously
- Indicates that the action was performed in spite of what preceded; nevertheless, still
Wallisian
Etymology
Borrowed from English bear. Cognates include Hawaiian pea, Maori pea, Tahitian pea and Tokelauan pea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.a/
- Hyphenation: pe‧a
Walloon
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pja/, /pɛː/
West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpe.a/