joia
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Old French joie, from Latin gaudia, plural of gaudium (“joy”).
Noun edit
joia f (plural joies)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old Catalan joiell, borrowed from Old French joiel, from Vulgar Latin *jocale (“graceful object”), from Latin iocus (“game; playing; joke”).
Noun edit
joia f (plural joies)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Sicilian: gioja
References edit
- “joia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “joia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “joia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “joia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
- goio (Provence)
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan joia, from Late Latin gaudia, plural of the Classical Latin gaudium (“joy”).
Noun edit
joia f (plural joias)
Old Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin gaudia, plural of the Classical Latin gaudium (“joy”).
Noun edit
joia f (oblique plural joias, nominative singular joia, nominative plural joias)
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gaudium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 91
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese joya, from Old French joie (modern joyau), from Vulgar Latin *jocale, from Latin jocus. Compare Catalan joia and Spanish joya.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: joi‧a
Noun edit
joia f (plural joias)
- jewel (a precious or semi-precious stone)
- (by extension) gem, treasure (anything considered precious or valuable)
- 2014, David Byrne, Como funciona a música, Editora Manole, →ISBN:
- Ele tinha razão. Inevitavelmente, a música gravada se tornou um braço da protoglobalização – um processo capaz de revelar joias escondidas e de, ao mesmo tempo, destruílas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- admission (the cost or fee associated with attendance or entry)
Adjective edit
joia (invariable, not comparable)
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:joia.