Ea. Definition

āä
abbreviation
Each.
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Each.
Webster's New World
Alternative form of ea.
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(computing) Enterprise Architecture: a framework used to manage and align an organization's business processes, Information Technology (IT) data, software and hardware, with the organization's overall strategy.
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(organic chemistry) Ethyl acetate.
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noun
The Babylonian god of primordial waters.
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(dialectal) A river or watercourse.

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Other Word Forms of Ea.

Noun

Singular:
ea.
Plural:
eas

Origin of Ea.

  • From Middle English, from Old English ēa (“running water, water, stream, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Cognate with North Frisian ia (“river”), Eastern Frisian äi (“river”), Dutch aa (“water, stream”), German Ache (“water, stream, river, flood”), Swedish å (“stream, creek”), Icelandic á (“stream, river”), Latin aqua (“water”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Akkadian ḥyw in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ea. Sentence Examples

  • In the astral theology of Babylonia and Assyria, Anu, Bel and Ea became the three zones of the ecliptic, the northern, middle and southern zone respectively.

  • It seems clear that the trinity of Anu, Bel, and Ea in the old Babylonian religion has its counterpart in the Mandaean Pira, Ayar, and Mana rabba.

  • To Anu was assigned the control of the heavens, to Bel the earth, and to Ea the waters.

  • Ea counselled him not to eat or drink there.

  • The special god of this city was Ea, god of the sea and of wisdom, and the prominence given to this god in the incantation literature of Babylonia and Assyria suggests not only that many of our magical texts are to be traced ultimately to the temple of Ea at Eridu, but that this side of the Babylonian religion had its origin in that place.

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