batalla

See also: Batalla and batallá

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

batalla f (plural batallas)

1. battle

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “batalla”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Etymology

Compare Spanish batalla, Galician batalla, Portuguese batalha. Ultimately from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō.

Noun

batalla f (plural batalles)

1. battle (general action, fight, or encounter; a combat)

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Late Latin battālia, variant of Latin battuālia (“fencing, fighting practice”), battuō (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈta.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈta.ʎa]

Noun

batalla f (plural batalles)

1. battle (a fight between two armed forces)
2. (figuratively) battle (any stuggle or contest marked by strong feelings)
3. (archaic) battle (a portion of an army)

Derived terms

• batallar

Related terms

• batre

Further reading

• “batalla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese batalla, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“fighting and fencing exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, beat”)

Noun

batalla f (plural batallas)

1. battle

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan batalha, or Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō. If inherited, the Latin term would have resulted in a Spanish *bataja instead, and even in Old Spanish writing such as the Cantar de Mio Cid, it was treated as a neologism, while the normal term for fight or battle was lid.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /baˈtaʝa/ [baˈt̪a.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baˈtaʝa/ [baˈt̪a.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /baˈtaʎa/ [baˈt̪a.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baˈtaʃa/ [baˈt̪a.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baˈtaʒa/ [baˈt̪a.ʒa]

• Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧lla

Noun

batalla f (plural batallas)

1. battle

Derived terms

• caballo de batalla
• campo de batalla

See also

• guerra f
• lucha f

Verb

batalla

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of batallar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of batallar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of batallar.