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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

Example Sentences

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Alvin Ea, chief executive of Singapore's largest container haulage platform, Haulio, believes that the industry has become a lot more resilient, by looking at options other than China.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2022

The unstable transition state can then subsequently decay to yield stable products, C + D. The diagram depicts the reaction's activation energy, Ea, as the energy difference between the reactants and the transition state.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

The state motto of Hawaii is "Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono".

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2017

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

There is hardly any doubt that in some of these cases the deity that is intended is the god whose name is now read Ae or Ea, who was called Aos by Damascius.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge