raia

From Old Portuguese [Term?], probably the feminine of raio, or from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius; cf. also the verb raiar. Compare Portuguese raia, Spanish raya.

raia f (plural raias)

1. stripe (long, straight region of a single colour)
2. border (line separating regions)
3. em dash (—)
4. ray (fish)

• (border): fronteira

• raiar

raia f (plural raie)

1. ray, skate (fish)

• razza

• raja (Medieval)

Hypothetically from a Proto-Italic *rajjā (perhaps < *ragjā), with unknown further origin. Parallels can be found in Germanic: Middle Dutch rogghe/rochghe (Dutch rog) and Middle Low German rugge, from Western Proto-Germanic *rugg-, as well as Old English reohhe, Middle English reyhhe, rezge, all meaning "ray". Taken together with the Latin, these forms could point to a dialectal Proto-Indo-European *raK- ~ *ruK- (“ray”); however, the phonetic correspondences are unusual even within Germanic, and this could indicate a loanword or substrate origin.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈraj.ja/

raia f (genitive raiae); first declension

1. ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

First declension.

• English: ray
• French: raie
• Galician: raia
• Hungarian: rája
• Italian: razza
• Portuguese: raia, arraia
• Spanish: raya

• raia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• raia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• raia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “raia”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 512–513

• arraia

From the feminine of raio, or from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius; cf. also the verb raiar. Compare Galician raia, Spanish raya. Cf. also French raie.

A less likely etymology derives it from an earlier arraia, from Old Portuguese *arraia, from Arabic رَعِيَّة‎ (raʿiyya).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁaj.ɐ/
• Hyphenation: rai‧a
• Rhymes: -aja

raia f (plural raias)

1. border (the line or frontier area separating countries)
2. (figuratively) limit
3. (colloquial) mistake

• (border): fronteira
• (mistake): erro

• raiano

From raiar.

raia

1. third-person singular present indicative of raiar
2. second-person singular imperative of raiar

From Latin raia.

raia f (plural raias)

1. ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

From Arabic رَعِيَّة‎ (raʿiyya).

raia (ma class, plural maraia)

1. subject (citizen, usually in a monarchy)