maleta

Borrowed from Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

• Hyphenation: ma‧le‧ta
• IPA^(key): /maˈleta/

maléta

1. suitcase
2. valise, trunk

   Synonyms: baul, kaban

From Old French malete, diminutive of male (“leather bag”). Cognate with contemporary French mallette (“briefcase”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /məˈlə.tə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /məˈlɛ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /maˈle.ta/
• Homophone: meleta

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maleta f (plural maletes)

1. suitcase

• maleter

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

Borrowed from Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

maleta

1. rifle case

• Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101)‎ (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 42
• Hilton, K. Simón; Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado‎ (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 28

From Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

maleta

1. suitcase

maleta

1. abessive singular of male

Attested since 1370. Ultimately from Old French malete, displacing maeta (13th century), from male (“leather bag, leather or wooden travel-case”), from Frankish *malha (“leather bag”), from Proto-Germanic *malhō (“leather bag”). Compare English mail.

• IPA^(key): [maˈletɐ]

maleta f (plural maletas)

1. suitcase
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 417:

     Et poso en suas maletas seu auer, et vesteusse moy rricament

     And she put her belongings in her suitcases, and dressed herself richly

2. (figurative) hunchback
3. (figurative) jobless and lazy person; vagrant

   Synonym: palanquín

• “maleta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “maleta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “maleta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “maleta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “maleta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Spanish maleta and Portuguese maleta.

maleta

1. suitcase
2. trunk

• Hyphenation: ma‧le‧ta

maleta f (plural maletas)

1. suitcase
2. bag
3. briefcase (case used for carrying documents)

• valise

From mala (“suitcase”, originally referred to a larger item like a chest or trunk) +‎ -eta (diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /maˈleta/ [maˈle.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: ma‧le‧ta

maleta f (plural maletas)

1. suitcase (large piece of luggage)

   Synonyms: valija, petaca

2. (Chile, Venezuela) trunk, boot (of a car)

   Synonyms: maletero, cajuela

• → Central Tarahumara: maleta
• Chavacano: maleta
• → Tagalog: maleta

• “maleta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

• Hyphenation: ma‧le‧ta
• IPA^(key): /maˈleta/, [mɐˈlɛ.tɐ]

maleta

1. suitcase; valise

Borrowed from Spanish maleta (“suitcase”).

maleta

1. suitcase