mõeda

See also: moeda, Moeda, and möda

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• moeda, moneda

Etymology

From Latin monēta (“money, coinage, mint”), from Moneta (“a surname of Juno, in whose temple at Rome money was coined”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mõˈeda/
• Rhymes: -eda
• Hyphenation: mõ‧e‧da

Noun

mõeda m (plural mõedas)

1. coin
   • c. 1295, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, page 898:

     Et este rrey don Afonso britou os foros aos poboos et deytoulles muytos peytos et muytos pedidos ena tera, et bateu mõedas de muytas guisas

     And this king Don Afonso broke the town charters and put many taxes on them, and made many petitions on the country, and he minted coins of many kinds

2. currency

Descendants

• Fala: muea, moneda, moea
• Galician: moeda
• Portuguese: moeda

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “m@eda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mõeda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025) “moeda”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa