embaixada

Attested since circa 1460. From Old Occitan ambayssada, derivative of ambaissa (“service”), from Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌹 (andbahti, “service, function”), from Proto-Germanic *andbahtiją (“service, office”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish *ambactos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”) + Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).

• IPA^(key): [embajˈʃaðɐ]

embaixada f (plural embaixadas)

1. embassy
2. ambassadorship

• embaixador

• “embaixada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “enbayxad” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “embaixada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “embaixada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Old Occitan ambayssada, derivative of ambaissa (“service”), from Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌹 (andbahti, “service, function”), from Proto-Germanic *andbahtiją (“service, office”), derivative of Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish *ambactos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”) + *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”).

• Hyphenation: em‧bai‧xa‧da

embaixada f (plural embaixadas)

1. embassy (organization representing a foreign state)
2. ambassadorship (the post or office of ambassador)
3. the act of repeatedly kicking a football upwards in order to prevent it from touching the ground

• embaixador, embaixadora, embaixatriz