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meda

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

Galician

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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meda f (plural mede)

  1. (nautical) beacon

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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meda f sg

  1. feminine singular of medo

Noun

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meda f (plural mede)

  1. female equivalent of medo (“Mede”)

Anagrams

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Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mēda

  1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of mēd

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Alternative scripts

Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit मेदस् (medas).

Noun

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meda m

  1. fat

Declension

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Declension table of "meda" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)medomedā
Accusative (second)medaṃmede
Instrumental (third)medenamedehi or medebhi
Dative (fourth)medassa or medāya or medatthaṃmedānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)medasmā or medamhā or medāmedehi or medebhi
Genitive (sixth)medassamedānaṃ
Locative (seventh)medasmiṃ or medamhi or medemedesu
Vocative (calling)medamedā

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

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: me‧da

Etymology 1

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Alteration of medo (“fear”).

Noun

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meda f (uncountable)

  1. Only used in que meda

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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meda f (plural medas)

  1. haystack, thatch

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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meda (Cyrillic spelling меда)

  1. genitive singular of med

Spanish

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin mēta. Doublet of meta.

Noun

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meda f (plural medas)

  1. conical haystack
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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meda f (plural medas)

  1. female equivalent of medo

Adjective

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meda f

  1. feminine singular of medo

Further reading

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