meada

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãada, from Medieval Latin *manata (“a handful”). Cognate with Spanish manada and Italian manata.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

meada f (plural meadas)

  1. handful, fistful
    Synonyms: manchea, presa
  2. bundle; sheaf
    Synonyms: feixe, maínzo, mollo

Etymology 2

1346. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mediata (“halved”), from Latin mediō (“to halve”). Cognate with Northern Portuguese meiada.

Meadas, meas, madeixas or cadeixas

Pronunciation

Noun

meada f (plural meadas)

  1. (archaic) halved
  2. skein
    Synonyms: cadeixa, madeixa, mea
    • 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

  • “mãada” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “meada” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “meada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “meada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “meada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joseph M. Piel (1953) Miscelânea de etimologia portuguesa e galega, Lisboa: Coimbra editor, pages 207-208.
  2. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “mano”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  3. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “medio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

Noun

meada f sg

  1. skein

Adjective

meada f sg

  1. feminine singular of meado

Participle

meada f sg

  1. feminine singular of meado

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈada/
  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Syllabification: me‧a‧da

Noun

meada f (plural meadas)

  1. (colloquial) piss; leak

Derived terms

Participle

meada f sg

  1. feminine singular of meado

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