medalia

See also: medalía

Latin

Etymology

Substantiviation of mediālia (with loss of the first /j/ via dissimilation from the second), neuter plural of Late Latin mediālis (“middle”, adj), 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]

Pronunciation
  • (Proto-Romance) IPA(key): /meˈdalʲa/

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.

Case 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 Venetian: 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 (in German), 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 conj.

  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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