joia

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɔ.jə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɔ.ja/

Borrowed from Old French joie, from Latin gaudia, plural of gaudium (“joy”).

joia f (plural joies)

1. joy

• joiós

From Old Catalan joiell, borrowed from Old French joiel, from Vulgar Latin *jocale (“graceful object”), from Latin iocus (“game; playing; joke”).

joia f (plural joies)

1. jewel

• joiell

• guardajoies
• joier
• joieria

• “joia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “joia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “joia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “joia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• goio (Provence)

From Old Occitan joia, from Late Latin gaudia, plural of the Classical Latin gaudium (“joy”).

joia f (plural joias)

1. joy

• joya

From Late Latin gaudia, plural of the Classical Latin gaudium (“joy”).

joia f (oblique plural joias, nominative singular joia, nominative plural joias)

1. joy

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “gaudium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 91

• jóia (pre-1990 spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese joya, from Old French joie (modern joyau), from Vulgar Latin *jocale, from Latin jocus. Compare Catalan joia and Spanish joya.

• Hyphenation: joi‧a

joia f (plural joias)

1. jewel (a precious or semi-precious stone)
2. (by extension) gem, treasure (anything considered precious or valuable)
   • 2014, David Byrne, Como funciona a música, Editora Manole, →ISBN:

     Ele tinha razão. Inevitavelmente, a música gravada se tornou um braço da protoglobalização – um processo capaz de revelar joias escondidas e de, ao mesmo tempo, destruílas.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

3. admission (the cost or fee associated with attendance or entry)

joia (invariable, not comparable)

1. (Brazil, informal) good, all right, fine

   Essa quantidade está joia.

   This amount is fine.