merenda

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese merenda, from Latin merenda. Cognate with Portuguese merenda, Spanish merienda, Italian merenda.

• IPA^(key): /meˈɾenda̝/

merenda f (plural merendas)

1. nuncheon; late afternoon snack
2. a light meal or snack had in between main meals
3. picnic

• merendar
• quitamerendas

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

From Latin merenda (“light evening meal”). Compare Galician and Portuguese merenda, Spanish merienda.

merenda f (plural merende)

1. snack (usually an afternoon snack)

   Synonym: spuntino

2. tea, break
3. picnic

   Synonym: picnic

• merendina
• merendero

• darmene

From mereō (“earn, deserve”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈren.da/, [mɛˈrɛn.da]

merenda f (genitive merendae); first declension

1. collation, light evening meal
2. a taste

First declension.

• merenda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• merenda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• merenda in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• merenda in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• merenda in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Old Portuguese merenda, from Latin merenda (“light evening meal”).

merenda f (plural merendas)

1. a meal eaten by students in school
2. dunch (small meal between lunch and dinner)

   Synonym: lanche