plomada
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
plomada f (plural plomades)
- plumb line
- weights (of a fishing net)
Etymology 2
Noun
plomada f (plural plomades)
- quillfull (amount of ink held by a quill)
- (by extension, figurative) penstroke
- 1959, Rafael Gay de Montellà, Llibre del Rosselló:
- La Revolució del 1792 va destruir d'una plomada aqueixa complicada desigualtat de classes.
- The Revolution of 1792 destroyed that complicated class inequality with a stroke of a pen.
- (figurative) line (short spell of writing)
Etymology 3
Noun
plomada f (plural plomades)
Participle
plomada f sg
- feminine singular of plomat
- 2005, Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff i Montalat, “Les amnèsies de Déu”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- França havia perdut la guerra però l'àguila germànica havia quedat plomada.
- France had lost the war but the Germanic eagle had got plucked.
Further reading
- “plomada”, 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
Spanish
Noun
plomada f (plural plomadas)
Further reading
- “plomada”, 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