moeda

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 Portuguese mõeda (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin monēta. Cognate with Portuguese moeda, Spanish moneda and English mint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊˈɛðɐ/

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. (archaic) mint

   Synonym: casa da moeda

Derived terms

• boa moeda
• casa da moeda
• moeda foreira

See also

• diñeiro

References

• “moeda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “moeda” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “moeda” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “moeda” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “moeda” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Old Portuguese

Noun

moeda f

1. Alternative form of mõeda

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Portuguese

moedas

Etymology

From Old 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, Catalan, and Occitan moneda, French monnaie, Italian moneta and English money.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈɛ.dɐ/, /muˈɛ.dɐ/ [mʊˈɛ.dɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈmwɛ.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈɛ.dɐ/, /muˈɛ.dɐ/ [mʊˈɛ.dɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈmwɛ.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈɛ.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmwɛ.dɐ/ [ˈmwɛ.ðɐ]

• 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

• “moeda” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• moeda on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt