moeda

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See also: Moeda, mõeda, and möda

Galician

Moeda (Roman dupondio minted at Lugo, Galicia, circa 20 BCE)
Rúa da Moeda Vella ("Old Mint Street"), Santiago de Compostela

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mõeda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin monēta. Cognate with Portuguese moeda, Spanish moneda and English mint.

Pronunciation

Noun

moeda f (plural moedas)

  1. coin
  2. coinage
  3. currency
  4. (archaic) mint
    Synonym: casa da moeda

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Indonesian

Adjective

moeda

  1. (pre-1947) Superseded spelling of muda.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Noun

moeda f

  1. Alternative form of mõeda
    • 1287, “El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives”, in E. Duro Peña, editor, Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:
      dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas
      you'll give this monastery's abbess a dinner each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this dinner a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

References

  • moeda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • moeda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.

Portuguese

moedas

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese moeda, mõeda, from Latin monēta (money, coinage, mint), from Moneta (a surname of Juno, in whose temple at Rome money was coined, literally adviser), from monere (to warn, advise).

Cognate with Galician moeda, Spanish, Catalan, and Occitan moneda, French monnaie, Italian moneta and English money.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /moˈɛ.dɐ/, /muˈɛ.dɐ/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˈmwɛ.dɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /moˈɛ.da/

  • Hyphenation: mo‧e‧da

Noun

moeda f (plural moedas)

  1. coin
    Ele achou uma moeda romana.
    He found a Roman coin.
  2. currency
    O escudo português era a moeda de Portugal antes da introdução do euro.
    The Portuguese Escudo was the currency of Portugal prior to the introduction of the Euro.

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