meada

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãada, from Medieval Latin *manata (“a handful”).^[1] Cognate with Spanish manada and Italian manata.^[2]

Alternative forms

• mada, manda

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈaða̝/

Noun

meada f (plural meadas)

1. handful, fistful

   Synonyms: manchea, presa

2. bundle; sheaf

   Synonyms: feixe, maínzo, mollo

Etymology 2

1346. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mediata (“halved”), from Latin mediō (“to halve”).^[3] Cognate with Northern Portuguese meiada.

Meadas, meas, madeixas or cadeixas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈaða̝/

Noun

meada f (plural meadas)

1. (archaic) halved
2. skein

   Synonyms: cadeixa, madeixa, mea

   • 1519, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros, Vigo: Galaxia, page 222:

     debo á muller de Vasco de Fonteelo una meada de liño e á Tereixa Gata quatro maçarocas destopa

     I owe a skein of flax to Vasco de Fontelo's wife, and to Tereixa Gata four spindlefuls of tow

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mãada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “meada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “meada”, 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), “meada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “meada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

1. Joseph M. Piel (1953) Miscelânea de etimologia portuguesa e galega, Lisboa: Coimbra editor, pages 207-208.
2. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “mano”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos
3. Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “medio”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos

Portuguese

Noun

meada f sg

1. skein

Adjective

meada f sg

1. feminine singular of meado

Participle

meada f sg

1. feminine singular of meado

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈada/ [meˈa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: me‧a‧da

Noun

meada f (plural meadas)

1. (colloquial) piss; leak

Derived terms

• echar una meada

 

Participle

meada f sg

1. feminine singular of meado

Further reading

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