embaixada

Galician

Attested since circa 1460. From Old Occitan ambayssada, derivative of ambaissa (“service”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”) + Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).

embaixada f (plural embaixadas)

Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “embaixada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “embaixada”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “embaixada”, 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), “embaixada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Old Occitan ambayssada, derivative of ambaissa (“service”), from Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌹 (andbahti, “service, function”), from Proto-Germanic *andbahtiją (“service, office”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish *ambactos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”) + *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).

(Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.bajˈʃa.dɐ/ [ẽ.baɪ̯ˈʃa.dɐ], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.bajˈʃa.dɐ/ [ĩ.baɪ̯ˈʃa.dɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.bajˈʃa.da/ [ẽ.baɪ̯ˈʃa.da], (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.bajˈʃa.da/ [ĩ.baɪ̯ˈʃa.da]

embaixada f (plural embaixadas)

embassy (organization representing a foreign state)
ambassadorship (the post or office of ambassador)
the act of repeatedly kicking a football upwards in order to prevent it from touching the ground