medalla

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian medaglia, from Early Medieval Latin medālia. Doublet of malla, the native Catalan counterpart.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈða.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [meˈða.ʎa]
• Rhymes: -aʎa
• Hyphenation: me‧da‧lla

Noun

medalla f (plural medalles)

1. medal

Derived terms

• medallista
• medalló

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.

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish medalla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈdaʎa/, [meˈd̪a.ʎa]
• Rhymes: -aʎa
• Hyphenation: me‧da‧lla

Noun

medalla (plural medallas)

1. medal

Related terms

• medallon

 

Galician

Alternative forms

• medalha (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian medaglia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈdaɟa/ [meˈð̞a̠.ɟɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɟa
• Hyphenation: me‧da‧lla

Noun

medalla f (plural medallas)

1. medal

Further reading

• “medalla”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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): /meˈdaʝa/ [meˈð̞a.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /meˈdaʝa/ [meˈð̞a.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /meˈdaʎa/ [meˈð̞a.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /meˈdaʃa/ [meˈð̞a.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /meˈdaʒa/ [meˈð̞a.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -aʝa

• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Rhymes: -aʎa
• Rhymes: -aʃa
• Rhymes: -aʒa

• Syllabification: me‧da‧lla

Noun

medalla f (plural medallas)

1. medal

Hyponyms

• medalla de bronce (“bronze medal”)
• medalla de honor (“badge of honor”)
• medalla de oro (“gold medal”)
• medalla de plata (“silver medal”)

 

Derived terms

• medallero
• medallista
• medallón
• reverso de la medalla

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: medalla
• → Maranao: midaliya
• → Tagalog: medalya

Further reading

• “medalla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16