teas

See also: teás, téas, and te-aș

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 of tea

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, SEAT, Seat, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seat, seta, tase

Galician

Noun

teas

1. plural of tea

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”), from Proto-Celtic *texstus, from Proto-Indo-European *tep- (“hot”). Cognate with Welsh tes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲasˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /tʲæsˠ/

Noun

teas m (genitive singular teasa)

1. heat, warmth
2. passion
3. feverishness

Declension

Declension of teas (third declension, no plural)

bare forms 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

• (heat, warmth): teocht

Derived terms

• teas adamhach (“atomic heat”)
• teas folaigh (“latent heat”)

Related terms

• te (“hot, warm”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of teas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
teas	theas	dteas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “teas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 tess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85

Romanian

Noun

teas n (plural teasuri)

1. Alternative form of tas

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	teas	teasul		teasuri	teasurile
genitive-dative	teas	teasului		teasuri	teasurilor
vocative	teasule			teasurilor

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish tess (“heat, warmth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃʰes̪/

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

• ain-teas
• teasachadh (“heating”)
• teasadair (“heater”)
• teasaich (“heat (up)”)
• teas-mheidh (“thermometer”)

Related terms

• teodhachd (“temperature”)
• teth (“hot”)

Spanish

Noun

teas f

1. plural of tea