medida

From medir.

• Hyphenation: me‧di‧da

medida f (plural medidas)

1. measurement; measure
2. action, step, sanction
   • 2015 December 3, Maria Lopes, Nuno Sá Lourenço, Sofia Rodrigues, “Costa anuncia 13 medidas no seu primeiro debate”, in Público:

     O segundo debate sobre um programa de Governo desta legislatura trouxe ontem ao Parlamento um primeiro-ministro municiado para o embate com uma mão cheia de medidas políticas.

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• na medida

medida f sg

1. feminine singular of medido

From medir +‎ -ida.

• IPA^(key): /meˈdida/ [meˈð̞i.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ida
• Syllabification: me‧di‧da

medida f (plural medidas)

1. measurement; measure, gauge

   Synonym: medición

2. degree, extent
3. action, step, sanction
4. moderation

   Synonym: moderación

medida f sg

1. feminine singular of medido

• “medida”, 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

Borrowed from Spanish medida.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /meˈdida/ [mɛˈd̪iː.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ida
• Syllabification: me‧di‧da

medida (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜇᜒᜇ)

1. measurer; measuring tool; measuring instrument (such as a tape measure or graduated cylinder)

   Synonyms: sukatan, panukat, takalan, panakal

2. (literary, poetry, music) measure; measurement; number of syllables in a line (in poetry)

   Synonyms: sukat, metro

• “medida” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “medida”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Santos, Vito C. (1978) Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 1280
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles (overall work in Tagalog and English), Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 706