medalia

See also: medalía

Latin

Etymology

Substantiviation of mediālia (with loss of the first /j/ via dissimilation), 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.

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.

	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 Venetan: medaie pl
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: mesala, mealla, maalla
    • Catalan: malla
  • Old Franco-Provençal: mealla
  • Old French: meaille, maaille
    • French: maille
    • → Neapolitan: maglia (Agnone)
  • Old Occitan: mezailha, mialha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: mealha
  • Spanish: meaja
• Insular Romance:
  • Old Sassarese: medaça
  • Sardinian: meaza (“unit of capacity”) (Logudorese)

References

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “meádza”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

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