medalia

See also: medalía

Latin

Etymology

    Substantiviation of mediālia (with loss of the first /j/ via dissimilation), neuter plural of Late Latin mediālis (“middle”, adjective), from Classical Latin medius +‎ -ālis. Attested in a ninth-century gloss, with the sense of 'half a denarius', the predominant meaning in Romance. Non-numismatic senses remain, however, in Sardinian and regional Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese.[1]

    Noun

    medālia f (genitive medāliae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

    1. that which is in the middle
    2. type of coin worth half a denarius

    Inflection

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative medālia medāliae
    genitive medāliae medāliārum
    dative medāliae medāliīs
    accusative medāliam medāliās
    ablative medāliā medāliīs
    vocative medālia medāliae

    Descendants

    • Italo-Romance:
      • Old Italian: medalgla
        • Italian: medaglia (see there for further descendants)
        • → Old Sardinian: metagia
    • North Italian:
      • Friulian: medaie
      • Old Ligurian: meaia
      • Old Lombard: megaglia
      • Old Venetan: medaie pl
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Old Catalan: mesala, mealla, maalla
      • Old Franco-Provençal: mealla
      • Old French: meaille, maaille
      • Old Occitan: mezailha, mialha
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Insular Romance:
      • Old Sassarese: medaça
      • Sardinian: meaza (“unit of capacity”) (Logudorese)

    References

    • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “meádza”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
    1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “medialis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 574

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Back-formation from medaliat

    Verb

    a medalia (third-person singular present medaliează, past participle medaliat) 1st conjugation

    1. to medal

    Conjugation

        conjugation of medalia (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
    infinitive a medalia
    gerund medaliind
    past participle medaliat
    number singular plural
    person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
    indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
    present medaliez medaliezi medaliază medaliem medaliați medaliază
    imperfect medaliam medaliai medalia medaliam medaliați medaliau
    simple perfect medaliai medaliași medalie medaliarăm medaliarăți medaliară
    pluperfect medaliasem medaliaseși medaliase medaliaserăm medaliaserăți medaliaseră
    subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
    present să medaliez să medaliezi să medalieze să medaliem să medaliați să medalieze
    imperative — tu — — voi —
    affirmative medaliază medaliați
    negative nu medalia nu medaliați
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