meda

See also: Meda, međa, Mêda, méďa, and MEDA

Galician

Etymology

Attested in 1150, in a transitional Latin-Romance text. From Old Galician-Portuguese meda, from Latin mēta (“cone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeða̝/, (western) /ˈmɛða̝/

Noun

meda f (plural medas)

1. 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

• Meda
• medeiro

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “meda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “meda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “meda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “meda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.da/
• Rhymes: -eda
• Hyphenation: mé‧da

Noun

meda f (plural mede)

1. (nautical) beacon

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.da/
• Rhymes: -ɛda
• Hyphenation: mè‧da

Adjective

meda f sg

1. feminine singular of medo

Noun

meda f (plural mede)

1. female equivalent of medo (“Mede”)

Anagrams

• dame

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.dɑ/

Noun

mēda

1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of mēd

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀫𑁂𑀤 (Brahmi script)
• मेद (Devanagari script)
• মেদ (Bengali script)
• මෙද (Sinhalese script)
• မေဒ or မေၻ (Burmese script)
• เมท or เมทะ (Thai script)
• ᨾᩮᨴ (Tai Tham script)
• ເມທ or ເມທະ (Lao script)
• មេទ (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄬𑄘 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit मेदस् (medas).

Noun

meda m

1. fat

Declension

Declension table of "meda" (masculine)

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

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “meda”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈme.dɐ/ [ˈme.ðɐ]

• Hyphenation: me‧da

Etymology 1

Alteration of medo (“fear”).

Noun

meda f (uncountable)

1. Only used in que meda

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin mēta (“cone, pyramid; boundary limit”).

Noun

meda f (plural medas)

1. haystack, thatch

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

meda (Cyrillic spelling меда)

1. genitive singular of med

Spanish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mēta. Doublet of meta.

Noun

meda f (plural medas)

1. conical haystack

Related terms

• desmedir
• medición
• medida
• medidor
• medidora
• medir
• mesura
• mesurar

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

meda f (plural medas)

1. female equivalent of medo

Adjective

meda f

1. feminine singular of medo

Further reading

• “meda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10