Noun: meda
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | meda |
| Plural f | medas |
Sample Sentences
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mandolle tomar essa meda do colmo que y se para cobrir esas casas da Meruca (I order him to take that stack of thatch that is there for covering those houses of Meruca) [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:]
Nouns inflected like meda
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested in 1150, in a transitional Latin-Romance text. From Old Galician-Portuguese meda, from Latin mēta (“cone”). See: Latin Nouns '
mēta'.
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