# meda
## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeða̝/, (western) /ˈmɛða̝/

### Noun

meda f (plural medas)
* conical haystack, of thatch or of not threshed grain
** 1294, J. L. Novo Cazón, editor, 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 MerucaI order him to take that stack of thatch that is there for covering those houses of Meruca

#### Derived terms

* Meda
* medeiro

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “meda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “meda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “meda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “meda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From Latin mēta (“boundary limit”), from Proto-Italic *mētā, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). Doublet of meta.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.da/
* Rhymes: -eda
* Hyphenation: mé‧da

#### Noun

meda f (plural mede)
* (nautical) beacon

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛ.da/
* Rhymes: -ɛda
* Hyphenation: mè‧da

#### Adjective

meda f sg
* feminine singular of medo

#### Noun

meda f (plural mede)
* female equivalent of medo (“Mede”)

### Anagrams

* dame

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeː.dɑ/

### Noun

mēda
* nominative/accusative/genitive plural of mēd

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀫𑁂𑀤 (Brahmi script)
* मेद (Devanagari script)
* মেদ (Bengali script)
* මෙද (Sinhalese script)
* မေဒ or မေၻ (Burmese script)
* เมท or เมทะ (Thai script)
* ᨾᩮᨴ (Tai Tham script)
* ເມທ or ເມທະ (Lao script)
* មេទ (Khmer script)
* 𑄟𑄬𑄘 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit मेदस् (medas).

### Noun

meda m
* fat

#### Declension
### References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “meda”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈme.dɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈme.dɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈme.da/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈme.dɐ/ [ˈme.ðɐ]
* Hyphenation: me‧da

### Etymology 1

Alteration of medo (“fear”).

#### Noun

meda f (uncountable)
* Only used in que meda

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin mēta (“cone, pyramid; boundary limit”).

#### Noun

meda f (plural medas)
* haystack, thatch

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

meda (Cyrillic spelling меда)
* genitive singular of med

## Spanish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mēta. Doublet of meta.

#### Noun

meda f (plural medas)
* conical haystack

##### Related terms

* desmedir
* medición
* medida
* medidor
* medidora
* medir
* mesura
* mesurar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

meda f (plural medas)
* female equivalent of medo

#### Adjective

meda f
* feminine singular of medo

### Further reading

* “meda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10