medalla

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

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

medalla f (plural medalles)

1. medal

• medallista
• medalló

• “medalla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “medalla”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

From Spanish medalla.

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

medalla (plural medallas)

1. medal

• medalha (reintegrationist)

Borrowed from Italian medaglia.

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

medalla f (plural medallas)

1. medal

• “medalla”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

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.

• Syllabification: me‧da‧lla

medalla f (plural medallas)

1. medal

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

• “medalla”, 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