mesada
Catalan
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmesada f (plural mesades)
- a period of time equivalent in length to a month
- El setge de la ciutat va durar més de dues mesades.
- The siege of the city lasted for more than two months.
- an amount paid monthly
- L'empresari deu dues mesades als treballadors.
- The owner owes the workers two months' pay.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mesada” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: me‧sa‧da
Etymology 1
editNoun
editmesada f (plural mesadas)
- pocket money; allowance (money given to a child)
Etymology 2
editFrom mesa (“table”) + -ada. Compare joelhada, pedrada, cotovelada.
Noun
editmesada f (plural mesadas)
- the act of hitting somebody with a table
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editmesada f (plural mesadas)
- pocket money; allowance (money given to a child)
- (Argentina) counter, bar, table
- (Puerto Rico) severance pay owed to an employee not terminated for cause
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
editmesada f sg
Further reading
edit- “mesada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- Catalan terms suffixed with -ada
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- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
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- ca:Time
- ca:Units of measure
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- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ada
- Rhymes:Spanish/ada/3 syllables
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ada
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- Argentinian Spanish
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