teas

See also: teás and téas

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiːz/
  • Rhymes: -iːz
  • Homophones: tease, tees

Noun

teas

  1. plural of tea

Verb

teas

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tea

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teasa)

  1. heat, warmth
  2. passion
  3. feverishness

Declension
Declension of teas

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative teas
Vocative a theas
Genitive teasa
Dative teas

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an teas
Genitive an teasa
Dative leis an teas

don teas

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • teas adamhach (“atomic heat”)
  • teas folaigh (“latent heat”)
  • te (“hot, warm”, adjective)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
teas theas dteas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "teas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “2 tess” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”).

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teas, no plural)

  1. heat
    Bha iad gam blianadh fhèin anns teas na grèine. - They were basking in the heat of the sun.

Derived terms

Spanish

Noun

teas f

  1. plural of tea
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