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  • Ea
    Ea
    noun
    the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
  • -ea
    -ea
    a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin.
  • ea.
    ea.
    abbreviation
    each.

Ea

1 American  
[ey-ah] / ˈeɪ ɑ /

noun

  1. the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.


-ea 2 American  
  1. a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin.

    cornea.


ea. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. each.


ea. British  

abbreviation

  1. each

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of -ea

< Latin -ēa, -aea, -ea, feminine singular and neuter plural of -ēus, -aeus, -eus; see -ean

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Lan was an early adopter, diversifying his crop two decades ago and now boasting 400 durian trees in Ea Knuec commune, part of Dak Lak province.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

Chinese ports don't have enough shipping containers because they haven't returned from the US, according to Alvia Ea, chief executive of Singapore's largest container haulage platform, Haulio.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2021

The catalyzed reaction mechanism involves a lower energy transition state than the uncatalyzed reaction, resulting in a lower activation energy, Ea, and a correspondingly greater rate constant.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

The two novellas follow Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of Protector Sanao who are trying to find their place in a fantastic, steampunk-styled world known as Ea.

From The Verge Sep. 1, 2017

Henceforth the son of Ea and the god of Babylon are one and the same.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

So in the examples aforesaid, ea. and ei. are the shankes of the superficiary angle e; And so are the three surfaces aoi. ieo. and aeo. the shankes of the said angle o.

From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell

"And then, '2 ea. silk net as per patts herewith': ea., eh?"

From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Therefore now again the multiplied proportions are thus: ue, ea, ue, ea. iy, yu, en, ue; by the 32. e.

From The Way To Geometry by William Bedwell

Cr. 8vo, 6s. ea.; post 8vo, bds 2s.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant

Cr. 8vo, cl., 3s. 6d. ea.; post 8vo, 2s. ea.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant

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