meda

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See also: Meda, međa, Mêda, méďa, and MEDA

Galician

Etymology

Attested in 1150, in a transitional Latin-Romance text. From Old Galician-Portuguese meda, from Latin mēta (“cone”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeða̝/, (western) /ˈmɛða̝/

Noun

meda f (plural medas)

  1. conical haystack, of thatch or of not threshed grain
    • 1294, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500), A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 270:
      mandolle tomar essa meda do colmo que y se para cobrir esas casas da Meruca
      I order him to take that stack of thatch that is there for covering those houses of Meruca

Derived terms

References

  • “meda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “meda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “meda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “meda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “meda” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈme.da/
  • Rhymes: -eda
  • Hyphenation: mé‧da

Noun

meda f (plural mede)

  1. (nautical) beacon

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.da/
  • Rhymes: -ɛda
  • Hyphenation: mè‧da

Adjective

meda f sg

  1. feminine singular of medo

Noun

meda f (plural mede)

  1. female equivalent of medo (“Mede”)

Anagrams

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit मेदस् (medas).

Noun

meda m

  1. fat

Declension

Declension table of "meda" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)medomedā
Accusative (second)medaṃmede
Instrumental (third)medenamedehi or medebhi
Dative (fourth)medassa or medāya or medatthaṃmedānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)medasmā or medamhā or medāmedehi or medebhi
Genitive (sixth)medassamedānaṃ
Locative (seventh)medasmiṃ or medamhi or medemedesu
Vocative (calling)medamedā

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “meda”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: me‧da

Etymology 1

Alteration of medo (“fear”).

Noun

meda f (uncountable)

  1. Only used in que meda

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin mēta (“cone, pyramid; boundary limit”).

Noun

meda f (plural medas)

  1. haystack, thatch

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

meda (Cyrillic spelling меда)

  1. genitive singular of med

Spanish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mēta. Doublet of meta.

Noun

meda f (plural medas)

  1. conical haystack
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

meda f (plural medas)

  1. female equivalent of medo

Adjective

meda f

  1. feminine singular of medo

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