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Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈte.mə]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈte.ma]

tema m (plural temes)

1. theme
2. topic, subject
3. (linguistics) theme, topic
   Synonym: tòpic
   Antonym: rema
4. (Internet) discussion thread, topic
   Synonym: fil

• tematització
• temàtic
• “tema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “tema”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Proto-Central Naga *hmaj.

• IPA(key): /tɯ˥.ma˥/, [tə˥.ma˥]

tema

1. surface

• madak

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎[1], Berkeley: University of California, pages 78, 189

From Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

tema n (singular definite temaet, plural indefinite temaer)

1. a theme
2. a subject, topic

• afstemningstema

• grundtema

• hovedtema

• sidetema

• temahæfte

• temanummer

• tematisere

• tematisk

• valgtema

• emne

• motiv

• “tema” in Den Danske Ordbog

From temo +‎ -a.

• IPA(key): /ˈtema/
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: te‧ma

tema (accusative singular teman, plural temaj, accusative plural temajn)

1. subject; related to a topic

• “tema”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *tämä, from Proto-Uralic *tä. Cognate with Finnish tämä, Northern Sami dát and Hungarian té- in tétova (“here and there”).

• IPA(key): /ˈtemɑ/
• Hyphenation: te‧ma

tema (genitive **tema, partitive teda, short form ta)

1. he/she (3rd person singular animate personal pronoun)

• Used stressed in a sentence; when the pronoun is unstressed, ta is used.

• “tema”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “tema”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• tema in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA(key): /ˈtʰeːma/

tema n (genitive singular **tema, plural temu or temur)

1. theme; subject

• evni
• temadagur
• temakvøld
• temavika
• "tema" at Sprotin.fo

tema

1. inflection of temer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Dutch thema, from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA(key): [ˈtɛma]
• Hyphenation: tè‧ma
• Rhymes: -ma, -a

tèma (plural **tema-tema)

1. theme

• bertema

• bertemakan

• tematik

• tematis

• “tema”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: tè‧ma

tema m (plural temi)

1. theme, subject
2. (linguistics) stem
3. thesis

• a tema
• sottotema
• tematico
• → Turkish: tema

From the verb temere. Compare Romanian teamă, Romansh tema, temma.

• IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.ma/, (traditional) /ˈte.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma, (traditional) -ema
• Hyphenation: tè‧ma, (traditional) té‧ma

tema f (plural teme)

1. fear

tema

1. inflection of temere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• Meta, mate, matè, meta, meta-, metà, team

tema

1. Rōmaji transcription of てま

Hinde (1904) records kutemma as an equivalent of English mutilate in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.[1]

• IPA(key): /tɛma/

tema (infinitive gũtema)

1. to cut (with a knife)

• gũtinia

(Nouns)

• ndemwa class 9/10
• mũtemi class 1

(Verbs)

• gũtemera
• gũtemwo

(Proverbs)

• gũtema na kanua ti gũtema na rũhiũ
• rũtemaga mwenji

1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 40–41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
• Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, p. 32.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma); cognate to Latin thema.

temà f (plural tèmos) stress pattern 2

1. theme; subject

Borrowed from Italian tema.

• IPA(key): /ˈtɛː.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛːma

tema m or f (plural temi)

1. topic, theme

• tema’

From Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

tema n (definite singular temaet, indefinite plural **tema or temaer, definite plural temaene)

1. a theme
2. a subject or topic

• temapark
• “tema” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

tema n (definite singular temaet, indefinite plural **tema, definite plural temaa)

1. a theme
2. a subject or topic

• temapark
• “tema” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• IPA(key): /ˈte.mɑ/

tema

1. singular imperative of temian, to tame

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtẽ.mɐ/

  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈte.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈte.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -emɐ

• Hyphenation: te‧ma

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma). Doublet of teima.

• thema (obsolete)

tema m (plural temas)

1. theme; topic; subject (what something is about)
   Synonym: tópico
2. theme; motif (recurring idea)
   Synonym: motivo
3. (music) theme (main melody of a piece of music)
4. (film, television) theme (melody that identifies a film or programme)
5. (linguistic morphology) theme (the main stem of a word, without the affixes)
6. (graphical user interface) theme; skin (colour schemes, sounds, artwork of an application)
   Synonym: skin
7. (historical) theme (regional unit of the Byzantine empire)

• teminha (diminutive), temazinho (diminutive)
• temático

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tema

1. inflection of temer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “tema”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tema”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

tema m (plural temas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) subject, topic, theme

From temair, temer, etc. Compare Italian tema, Romanian teamă.

• temma (Puter, Vallader)

tema f (plural temas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) fear

• IPA(key): /těːma/
• Hyphenation: te‧ma

téma f (Cyrillic spelling те́ма)

1. theme, subject

-temá

1. black
2. dark

From Proto-Slavic *tьma.

• IPA(key): /təmá/, /tə́ma/

təmȁ or tə̏ma f

1. dark, darkness

From Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμᾰ (thémă).

• IPA(key): /téːma/

tẹ̑ma f

1. topic, theme

• “tema”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026
• IPA(key): /ˈtema/ [ˈt̪e.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: te‧ma

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma). Doublet of taima.

tema m (plural temas)

1. theme; plot (of a book, film or other media)
   Me gusta la serie porque el tema es complicado.
   I like the series because the plot is complicated.
2. topic; matter; subject
   el tema es que… ― the thing is…
   por el tema de ― because of…
3. (linguistics) theme; topic
   Antonym: rema
4. song, track
   Alternative forms: (augmentative) temazo, (augmentative) temón

• aquí hay tema

• cada loco con su tema

• darle al tema

• fuera de tema (“off-topic”)

• temar

• temario

• tematizar

• temática

• temático

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tema

1. inflection of temar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of temer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “tema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

-tema (infinitive kutema)

1. to slash, to cut with a panga
2. to spit

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -temea
  • Causative: -temesha
  • Stative: -temeka
• Nominal derivations:
  • utemaji (“spitting”)

Borrowed from Latin thema.

tema n

1. a theme, a topic

• tematisk
• “tema”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• meta, tame, team

Borrowed from Spanish tema.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈtema/ [ˈt̪ɛː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: te‧ma

tema (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜋ)

1. theme; subject
   Synonym: paksa
2. (colloquial) resentment (often expressed indirectly in one's words)
   Synonyms: hinanakit, sama ng loob, pagdaramdam

• temahan

• temahin

• pahatid

• mensahe

• mate

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-téma.

• IPA(key): /téma/

-tema (infinitive okutema) (transitive)

1. (with an axe or machete) to cut, chop, fell
   Near-synonym: -sara
2. (of snakes) to bite
   Near-synonym: -ruma

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -temera
  • Long causative: -temesa
  • Passive: -temwa
  • Reduplicative: -tematema
• Nominal derivations:
  • ekitemamuhoro (“mantis”)
  • ekiteme (“cleared field”)
  • omutemi (“feller”)
• Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎[2], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 244, 290
• Rubongoya, L. T. (2013), Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎[3], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 396
• Entry 2832 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

Borrowed from Italian tema.

tema (definite accusative temayı, plural temalar)

1. theme, subject

Borrowed from Latin thema.

tema (plural temalar)

1. theme, subject