medalla

medalla

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian medaglia, itself from Vulgar Latin *medālia. Doublet of malla, the inherited form.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /məˈda.ʎə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /meˈda.ʎa/

Noun

medalla f (plural medalles)

1. medal

Derived terms

• medallista
• medalló

Further reading

• “medalla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “medalla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “medalla” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “medalla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish medalla.

Noun

medalla

1. medal

Related terms

• medallón

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian medaglia.

Noun

medalla f (plural medallas)

1. medal

Further reading

• “medalla” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Vulgar Latin *medālia, dissimilated form of the unattested *mediālia, neuter plural (taken for a feminine singular) of the adjective *mediālis (“of the middle”), from Late Latin mediāle (“middle”), from Latin medius. Doublet of meaja, the inherited form. Related to English medal, ultimately from the same Italian source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /meˈdaʝa/ [meˈð̞a.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /meˈdaʝa/ [meˈð̞a.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /meˈdaʎa/ [meˈð̞a.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /meˈdaʃa/ [meˈð̞a.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /meˈdaʒa/ [meˈð̞a.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -aʝa

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -aʝa
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -aʎa
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -aʃa
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -aʒa

• Syllabification: me‧da‧lla

Noun

medalla f (plural medallas)

1. medal

Hyponyms

• medalla de bronce (“bronze medal”)
• medalla de honor (“badge of honor”)
• medalla de oro (“gold medal”)
• medalla de plata (“silver medal”)

 

Derived terms

• medallero
• medallista
• medallón

Descendants

• Chavacano: medalla
• → Maranao: midaliya
• → Tagalog: medalya

Further reading

• “medalla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014