matada
Asturian
Participle
matada f sg
- feminine singular of matáu
Catalan
Pronunciation
Participle
matada f sg
- feminine singular of matat
Galician
Participle
matada
- feminine singular of matado
Portuguese
Participle
matada f sg
- feminine singular of matado
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maˈtada/ [maˈt̪a.ð̞a]
Audio (Costa Rica): (file) - Rhymes: -ada
- Syllabification: ma‧ta‧da
Noun
matada f (plural matadas)
- (colloquial, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, Venezuela, Paraguay, Ecuador) a violent fall
- Synonym: caída
- Juan se dio una gran matada mientras caminaba en la calle.
- Juan suffered a violent fall while walking on the street.
Adjective
matada
- feminine singular of matado
Participle
matada f sg
- feminine singular of matado
Further reading
- “matada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- “matada”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
Wolio
Etymology
ma- + tada, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tazəm, from Proto-Austronesian *Cazəm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mataɗa/
Adjective
matada
References
- Anceaux, Johannes C. (1987) Wolio Dictionary (Wolio-English-Indonesian) / Kamus Bahasa Wolio (Wolio-Inggeris-Indonesia), Dordrecht: Foris