medalla
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian medaglia, from Early Medieval Latin medālia. Doublet of malla, the native Catalan counterpart.
Derived terms
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, 2024
- “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.
Galician
Further reading
- “medalla”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Early Medieval Latin medālia, ultimately from Latin medius. Doublet of meaja, the native Spanish counterpart. Related to English medal, ultimately from the same Italian source.
Pronunciation
- 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]
- (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
Hyponyms
- medalla de bronce (“bronze medal”)
- medalla de honor (“badge of honor”)
- medalla de oro (“gold medal”)
- medalla de plata (“silver medal”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “medalla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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