meada

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician mãada, from Medieval Latin *manata (“a handfull”). Cognate with Spanish manada and Italian manata.

Alternative forms

• mada, manda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈaða̝/

Noun

meada f (plural meadas)

1. handful, fistful

   Synonyms: manchea, presa

2. bundle; sheaf

   Synonyms: feixe, maínzo, mollo

Etymology 2

1346. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mediata (“halved”), from Latin mediō (“I halve”). Cognate with Northern Portuguese meiada.

Meadas, meas, madeixas or cadeixas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈaða̝/

Noun

meada f (plural meadas)

1. (archaic) halved
2. skein
   • 1519, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Vigo: Galaxia, page 222:

     debo á muller de Vasco de Fonteelo una meada de liño e á Tereixa Gata quatro maçarocas destopa

     I owe a skein of flax to Vasco de Fontelo's wife, and to Tereixa Gata four spindlefuls of tow

   Synonyms: cadeixa, madeixa, mea

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mãada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “meada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Adjective

meada f sg

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective meado.

Verb

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈada/ [meˈa.ð̞a]

Verb

meada f sg

1. Template:es-verb form of/participle mear.