meda
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested in 1150, in a transitional Latin-Romance text. From Old Galician-Portuguese meda, from Latin mēta (“cone”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meda f (plural medas)
- 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 edit
References edit
- “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 edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meda f (plural mede)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
meda f sg
Noun edit
meda f (plural mede)
Anagrams edit
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Sanskrit मेदस् (medas).
Noun edit
meda m
Declension edit
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | medo | medā |
Accusative (second) | medaṃ | mede |
Instrumental (third) | medena | medehi or medebhi |
Dative (fourth) | medassa or medāya or medatthaṃ | medānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | medasmā or medamhā or medā | medehi or medebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | medassa | medānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | medasmiṃ or medamhi or mede | medesu |
Vocative (calling) | meda | medā |
References edit
Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “meda”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: me‧da
Etymology 1 edit
Alteration of medo (“fear”).
Noun edit
meda f (uncountable)
- Only used in que meda
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Latin mēta (“cone, pyramid; boundary limit”).
Noun edit
meda f (plural medas)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
meda (Cyrillic spelling меда)
Spanish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin mēta. Doublet of meta.
Noun edit
meda f (plural medas)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
meda f (plural medas)
- female equivalent of medo
Adjective edit
meda f
Further reading edit
- “meda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014