alga

From Latin alga.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæl.ɡə/

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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.

• Algaes is a non-standard plural.

• (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
• golden alga
• ice alga
• snow alga

• Algae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Gaal, Gala, agal, gala

Inherited from Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈal.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈal.ɣa]

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alga f (plural algues)

1. alga

• “alga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalka/
• Rhymes: -alka

alga f (genitive singular algu, plural algur)

1. alga

From Latin alga.

• Hyphenation: al‧ga

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

• alga parda
• alga verde
• alga vermella

• “alga”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Borrowed from English alga, from Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalˠ(ə)ɡə/

alga m (genitive singular alga, nominative plural algaí)

1. (biology) alga

   Synonym: feamainn

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “alga” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.=

From Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -alɡa
• Hyphenation: àl‧ga

alga f (plural alghe)

1. seaweed

• alga in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• alga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• gala

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/, [ˈäɫ̪ɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/, [ˈälɡä]

alga f (genitive algae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• algensis
• algōsus

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *algā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elgʷʰ-.

alga f (4th declension)

1. salary, wage
2. reward
3. pay

   algu saraksts ― pay bill

• algojums
• atalgojums
• atmaksa
• atlīdzinājums
• atlīdzība
• gājiens
• izpeļņa
• maksa
• peļņa
• samaksa
• uzturs

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *algā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elgʷʰ-.[1] Cognate with Latvian àlga (“salary”), Old Prussian ālgas (“salary”, Gsg.), Ancient Greek ἀλφή (alphḗ, “gain, profit”), Sanskrit अर्घ (arghá, “worth, value, price”).[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): [ɐɫ̪ˈɡɐ]

algà f (plural al̃gos) stress pattern 4

1. pay, salary, wage

• “alga”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “alga”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈalɡa/ (Milanese)

alga f

1. seaweed

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alga f (plural algas)

1. seaweed

From Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalɡa/

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 nõbre

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

• alguenno

• Spanish: alga

Borrowed from German Alge or French algue,[1] from Latin alga.[2] First attested in 1619.[3]

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -alɡa
• Syllabification: al‧ga

alga f

1. alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms)

   Synonym: glon

   Hypernym: wodorost

   na bazie alg ― basedn on algae

   algi morskie ― sea/marine algae

   sproszkowane algi ― powdered algae

   nawilżające algi ― moisturizing algae

   brunatne algi ― brown algae

   zielone algi ― green algae

   niebieskie algi ― blue algae

   czerwone algi ― red algae

   lecznicze algi ― healing/therapeutic/medicinal algae

   hodowla alg ― algae culture/cultivation

   uprawa alg ― algae cultivation/growth/growing

   gatunek alg ― a species of algae

Usually in the plural.

• alga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• alga in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

From Latin alga.

• (Caipira Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈaɻɡa]
• Homophone: auga (Brazil)
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alɡɐ, (Brazil) -awɡɐ
• Hyphenation: al‧ga

alga f (plural algas)

1. (botany) alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms similar to plants or bacteria)
2. seaweed (any marine plant)

Borrowed from Latin alga.

alga f (Cyrillic spelling алга)

1. alga

Inherited from Latin alga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈalɡa/ [ˈal.ɣ̞a]

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• Rhymes: -alɡa
• Syllabification: al‧ga

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

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