meda

Attested in 1150, in a transitional Latin-Romance text. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese meda, from Latin mēta (“cone”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeða̝/, (western) /ˈmɛða̝/

meda f (plural medas)

1. conical haystack, of thatch or of not threshed grain
   • 1294, J. L. Novo Cazón (ed.), El priorato santiaguista de Vilar de Donas en la Edad Media (1194-1500). A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 270:

     mandolle tomar essa meda do colmo que y se para cobrir esas casas da Meruca

     I order him to take that stack of thatch that is there for covering those houses of Meruca

• Meda
• medeiro

• “meda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “meda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “meda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “meda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “meda” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁- (“to measure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.da/, [ˈmeːd̪ä]
• Rhymes: -eda
• Hyphenation: mé‧da

meda f (plural mede)

1. (nautical) beacon

• meta

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.da/, [ˈmɛːd̪ä]
• Rhymes: -ɛda
• Hyphenation: mè‧da

meda

1. Feminine singular of adjective medo.

meda f (plural mede)

1. feminine of medo (“Mede”)

• dame

From Pre-Sanskrit मेदस् (medas)

meda m

1. fat

meda in Pali Text Society (1921–1925), Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead. (licensed under CC-BY-NC)

Alteration of medo (“fear”).

meda f (uncountable)

1. Only used in que meda

From Latin meta (“meta”).

meda f (plural medas)

1. haystack

meda m (definite singular medan)

1. superstition

• me

• medafull (“superstitious”)