greda

See also: gręda and Gręda

English

Noun

greda (plural gredas or greda)

1. Synonym of paha (“type of landform”).

Anagrams

• grade, garde, Degar, EDGAR, radge, Dager, raged, Agder, Gared, Edgar, Adger, Gerda

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crēta. Doublet of creta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈɡɾɛ.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈɡɾə.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡɾe.ða]

Noun

greda f (plural gredes)

1. clay

Derived terms

• engredar
• gredera
• gredós

Further reading

• “greda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Occitan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *crēda, from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus. (compare Catalan greda, French craie, Italian creta).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

greda f (plural gredas)

1. chalk

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 360

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crēta.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾe.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾe.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾe.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾe.dɐ/ [ˈɡɾe.ðɐ]

• Hyphenation: gre‧da

Noun

greda f (plural gredas)

1. clay

Further reading

• “greda”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “greda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gręda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrěːda/

Noun

gréda f (Cyrillic spelling гре́да)

1. beam (large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use)

Declension

Declension of greda

	singular	plural
nominative	gréda	grȇde
genitive	grede	grȇdā
dative	gredi	gredama
accusative	grȇdu	grede
vocative	gredo	grede
locative	gredi	gredama
instrumental	gredom	gredama

Further reading

• “greda”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crēta (“chalk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾeda/ [ˈɡɾe.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -eda
• Syllabification: gre‧da

Noun

greda f (plural gredas)

1. fuller's earth

   Synonym: buro (Aragon)

Further reading

• “greda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English grader.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

greda class ? (plural [please provide])

1. grader (machine used in road maintenance, construction and mining for leveling large surfaces)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɛda/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɡreːda/, /ˈɡrɛda/

Verb

greda

1. soft mutation of creda

Mutation

Mutated forms of creda

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
creda	greda	nghreda	chreda

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