melodia

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

melodia f (plural melodies)

1. melody

Related terms

• melòdic

Further reading

• “melodia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “melodia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “melodia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “melodia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Esperanto

Etymology

From melodio +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: me‧lo‧di‧a

Adjective

melodia (accusative singular melodian, plural melodiaj, accusative plural melodiajn)

1. melodious, tuneful

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

melodia

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

From Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδῐ́ᾱ (melōidíā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelodiɑ/,
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): me‧lo‧di‧a

Noun

melodia

1. (music) melody, tune

Declension

Synonyms

• sävelmä

Derived terms

Further reading

• “melodia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

melodia

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.loˈdi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: me‧lo‧dì‧a

Noun

melodia f (plural melodie)

1. (music) melody, tune

Related terms

• melo-
• melodico
• melodioso

Anagrams

• Meliadò, diamole, lediamo

Latin

Etymology

Late adoption of Ancient Greek μελῳδῐ́ᾱ (melōidíā) thus with ō for oe (seen in cōmoedia and tragoedia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈloː.di.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈlo.di.a/,

Noun

melōdia f (genitive melōdiae); first declension

1. melody
2. pleasant song

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• “melodia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• melodia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• melodia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

melodia

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin melōdia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈlɔ.dja/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔdja
• Syllabification: me‧lo‧dia

Noun

melodia f (diminutive melodyjka)

1. (music) melody

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Old Ruthenian: мело́дїꙗ (melódija), мело́дїа (melódia), мелїо́дїꙗ (meliódija), меле́дїꙗ (melédija)
  • Belarusian: мело́дыя (mjelódyja)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: мело́дія (melódija)
  • Ukrainian: мело́дія (melódija)
• → Russian: мело́дия (melódija)
  • → Kazakh: мелодия (melodiä)

Further reading

• melodia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• melodia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin melōdia (“melody”), from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me‧lo‧di‧a

Noun

melodia f (plural melodias)

1. melody (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase)
2. (figurative) harmony (pleasing arrangement of sounds)

   Synonyms: harmonia, sinfonia

   Antonyms: cacofonia, desafinação, dissonância

Related terms

• melódia
• melodiar
• melódica
• melodicamente
• melódico