meada
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Meadas, meas, madeixas or cadeixas
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese mãada, from Medieval Latin *manata (“a handful”).[1] Cognate with Spanish manada and Italian manata.[2]
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
meada f (plural meadas)
Etymology 2
1346. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mediata (“halved”), from Latin mediō (“to halve”).[3] Cognate with Northern Portuguese meiada.
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Pronunciation
Noun
meada f (plural meadas)
- (archaic) halved
- skein
- 1519, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 222:
- debo á muller de Vasco de Fonteelo una meada de liño e á Tereixa Gata quatro maçarocas destopa
- I owe a skein of flax to Vasco de Fontelo's wife, and to Tereixa Gata four spindlefuls of tow
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mãada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “meada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “meada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “meada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joseph M. Piel (1953) Miscelânea de etimologia portuguesa e galega, Lisboa: Coimbra editor, pages 207-208.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “mano”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “medio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese
Noun
meada f sg
Adjective
meada f sg
Participle
meada f sg
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
meada f (plural meadas)
- (colloquial) piss; leak
Derived terms
Participle
meada f sg
Further reading
- “meada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10