medallion

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mediālis

Early Medieval Latin medālia

Italian medagliabor.

French médaille

French -on

French médaillonbor.

English medallion

Borrowed from French médaillon.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈdæljən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

medallion (plural medallions)

1. A large medal, usually decorative.
2. A cut of meat resembling a large medal.

   Synonym: medaillon

   pork medallion

3. (art) A usually round or oval frame (often made of stucco) containing a decoration.
4. A circular certificate used in some places to register a vehicle, especially a taxicab.
5. A yellowish brown.

Derived terms

• medallionist
• medallionlike
• medallion man

Related terms

• medal

Translations

large decorative medal

• Albanian: mërcel m
• Bulgarian: медалион m (medalion)
• Catalan: medalló m
• Finnish: medaljonki (fi)
• French: médaillon (fr) m
• Galician: medallón (gl) m
• German: Medaillon (de) n
• Irish: mórbhonn m, meadáille m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} medaglione (it)
• Japanese: 円形浮彫 (enkei ukibori)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} medallionis
• Macedonian: медалјон m (medaljon)
• Portuguese: medalhão (pt) m
• Romanian: medalion (ro)
• Russian: медальо́н (ru) m (medalʹón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: медаљон m

  Latin: medaljon (sh) m

• Spanish: medallón m
• Yiddish: אויבל m (oybl)

cut of meat

• Finnish: medaljonki (fi), perhonen (fi)
• Irish: meadáille m
• Swedish: medaljong (sv) c

Verb

medallion (third-person singular simple present medallions, present participle medallioning, simple past and past participle medallioned)

1. (transitive, poetic) To mark with, or as with, a medallion or medallions.

   a sunset that medallioned the eastern sky

See also

• amulet
• rosary
• talisman

Anagrams

• medaillon