moeda

See also: Moeda, mõeda, and möda

Galician

Moeda (Roman dupondio minted at Lugo, Galicia, circa 20 BCE)

Rúa da Moeda Vella ("Old Mint Street"), Santiago de Compostela

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese mõeda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin monēta. Cognate with Portuguese moeda and Spanish moneda.

Noun

moeda f (plural moedas)

1. coin
2. coinage
   • 1287, E. Duro Peña (ed.), "El monasterio de San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives", Archivos Leoneses, 21, 49, page 72:

     dardes cada ano abbadesa do sobredito moesteyro un jantar neste guisa sosu[dita dar]desnos dous carneyros boos e tres cabritos e V galinnas e pan de centeo que auonde a nosa conpana e V teegas de çeuada por teega [dereita e] se for en inuerno dardesnos para este jantar un porco boo que ualea un mr. de boa moeda e tres cabritos e V galinnas

     you'll give this monastery's abbess a dinner each year in this way: two good rams and three kids and five hens and rye bread enough for our retinue and 5 bushels of barley, correctly measured; and if it happens to be winter you'll give us for this dinner a good pig, valued in three maravedis of good coinage, and three kids and five hens

3. currency
4. mint

   Synonym: casa da moeda

Derived terms

• boa moeda
• casa da moeda
• moeda foreira

See also

• diñeiro

References

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

---

Old Portuguese

Noun

moeda f

1. Alternative form of mõeda

---

Portuguese

moedas

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese moeda, mõeda, from Latin monēta (“money, coinage, mint”), from Moneta (“a surname of Juno, in whose temple at Rome money was coined; literally, adviser”), from monere (“to warn, advise”).

Cognate with Galician moeda, Spanish moneda, Catalan moneda, Occitan moneda, French monnaie, Italian moneta and English money.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmwɛ.dɐ/, [ˈmwɛ.ðɐ]
• IPA^(key): /mo.ˈɛ.dɐ/, /mu.ˈɛ.dɐ/, /ˈmwɛ.dɐ/
• Hyphenation: mo‧e‧da

Noun

moeda f (plural moedas)

1. coin

   Ele achou uma moeda romana.

   He found a Roman coin.

2. currency

   O escudo português era a moeda de Portugal antes da introdução do euro.

   The Portuguese Escudo was the currency of Portugal prior to the introduction of the Euro.

Related terms

• monetário

See also

• dinheiro

Further reading

• Template:R:Priberam
• moeda on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt