batalla

See also: Batalla and batallá

Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈtaʎa/
• Rhymes: -aʎa
• Syllabification: ba‧ta‧lla

Noun

batalla f (plural batallas)

1. battle

References

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “batalla”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Etymology

Compare Spanish batalla, Galician batalla, Portuguese batalha. Ultimately from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈtaʎa/, [baˈt̪a.ʎa]
• Rhymes: -aʎa
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧lla

Noun

batalla f (plural batalles)

1. battle (general action, fight, or encounter; a combat)

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin battālia, variant of Latin battuālia (“fencing, fighting practice”), battuō (“to strike”). Compare Old Occitan batalha and French bataille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈta.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈta.ʎa]

Noun

batalla f (plural batalles)

1. battle (a fight between two armed forces)
2. (figuratively) battle (any stuggle or contest marked by strong feelings)
3. (archaic) battle (a portion of an army)

Derived terms

• batallar
• camp de batalla

 

Related terms

• batre

Further reading

• “batalla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “batalla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

batalla

1. inflection of batallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Alternative forms

• batalha (reintegrationist)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈtaɟa/ [baˈt̪a̠.ɟɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɟa
• Hyphenation: ba‧ta‧lla

Etymology 1

Attested since the 12th century as a byname. From Old Galician-Portuguese batalla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia (“fighting and fencing exercises”), from Latin battuō (“to strike, beat”).

Noun

batalla f (plural batallas)

1. battle
   • 1473, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 29:

     os quales diñeiros gastei en desenbargar os bees e terras que meu señor padre enpeñou a payo gomez de soutomayor vasallo do Rey e señor que foi da casa forte de lantaño para a costa que tebo ennas sahidas que fiso con os demais fidalgos da terra en compañia do señor arçobispo e perlado de santiago don lope de mendoza tio de dona maior de mendoza moller que foi do dito payo gomez contra os mouros da andaluçia fasta que se ganou a cibdad de antequeira ao Rey mouro de granada de chamamento do señor infante don fernando, e tamen enna sahida que eu fise de chamamento de seu sobriño noso señor el Rey don joan e de mandado de meu señor padre en lugar del cando se ganou dos mouros a grande batalla da figeira en donde tamen perdin e me mataron o cabalo e eu sahin ben librado enpero ben ferido de hua saetada enno braço dereito que non a vin curada fasta pasados ben tres meses

     said money I spent in redeeming the assets and lands that my father pawned to Paio Gómez de Soutomaior, vassal of the King and late lord of the stronghold of Lataño, for the expenses he had in the expeditions that he did together with the other noblemen of the country, in the company of the lord archbishop and prelate of Santiago Don Lope de Mendoza, uncle of lady Maior de Mendoza, late wife of said Paio Gómez, against the Moors of Andalusia until the city of Antequera was won from the Moor king of Granada, thanks to the call of lord Prince Don Fernando; and also in the expeditions I did at the call of his nephew our king Don Xoán, at the orders of my father and instead of him, when the great Battle of the Figtree was won to the Moors, where I lost and they killed my horse and I got out safe but badly injured of an arrow shot in the right arm, wound that I saw not cured until more than three moths later

Derived terms

• Batalláns
• batallar
• Batallás
• batallón

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “batalla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “batalla”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “batalla”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “batalla”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Etymology 2

Verb

batalla

1. inflection of batallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baˈtaʝa/ [baˈt̪a.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baˈtaʝa/ [baˈt̪a.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /baˈtaʎa/ [baˈt̪a.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baˈtaʃa/ [baˈt̪a.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baˈtaʒa/ [baˈt̪a.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -aʝa

• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Rhymes: -aʎa
• Rhymes: -aʃa
• Rhymes: -aʒa

• Syllabification: ba‧ta‧lla

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish batalla, borrowed from Old Occitan batalha, or Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō. If inherited, the Latin term would have resulted in a Spanish *bataja instead, and even in Old Spanish writing such as the Cantar de Mio Cid, it was treated as a neologism, while the normal term for fight or battle was lid.

Noun

batalla f (plural batallas)

1. battle

Derived terms

• batalla campal
• batalla cultural
• batalla de flores
• caballo de batalla
• campo de batalla
• dar la batalla
• frente de batalla
• mar de batalla
• mesa de batalla
• orden de batalla
• sala de batalla

 

See also

• guerra f
• lucha f

Etymology 2

Verb

batalla

1. inflection of batallar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “batalla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10