meda

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

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

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

• Meda
• medeiro

• 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

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

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

meda f (plural mede)

1. (nautical) beacon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

meda f sg

1. feminine singular of medo

meda f (plural mede)

1. female equivalent of medo (“Mede”)

• dame

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.dɑ/

mēda

1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of mēd

Inherited from Sanskrit मेदस् (medas).

meda m

1. fat

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

• Hyphenation: me‧da

Alteration of medo (“fear”).

meda f (uncountable)

1. Only used in que meda

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

meda f (plural medas)

1. haystack, thatch

meda (Cyrillic spelling меда)

1. genitive singular of med

Inherited from Latin mēta. Doublet of meta.

meda f (plural medas)

1. conical haystack

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

meda f (plural medas)

1. female equivalent of medo

meda f

1. feminine singular of medo

• “meda”, 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