different between medieval vs cantiga

English

Alternative forms

• (dated) mediaeval
• (archaic) mediæval

Etymology

From French médiéval (“medieval”), from Latin medium (“middle”) + aevum (“age”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?d.i.?i?.v?l/, /?mi?.di.?i?.v?l/, /m?d.?i?.v?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?d.?i.v?l/, /?m?di.?i.v?l/

Adjective

medieval (comparative more medieval, superlative most medieval)

1. Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
2. Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
   1. Archaic.
   2. Brutal.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

medieval (plural medievals)

1. Someone living in the Middle Ages.
2. A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).

Translations

Aragonese

Adjective

medieval

1. medieval

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /m?.di.??val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /m?.di.??bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me.di.e?val/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

medieval (masculine and feminine plural medievals)

1. medieval

Derived terms

• grec medieval

Galician

Adjective

medieval m or f (plural medievais)

1. medieval

Portuguese

Adjective

medieval m or f (plural medievais, comparable)

1. medieval

Romanian

Etymology

From French médiéval

Adjective

medieval m or n (feminine singular medieval?, masculine plural medievali, feminine and neuter plural medievale)

1. medieval

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• medioeval

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /medje?bal/, [me.ð?je???al]

Adjective

medieval (plural medievales)

1. medieval

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Portuguese cantiga.

Noun

cantiga (plural cantigas)

1. A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.

Anagrams

• agnatic

Galician

Alternative forms

• cántega, cántiga

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cantiga, either from cantar or from a Celtic substrate form *cant?c? or *cant?c?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?n?ti??]

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. Alternative form of cántiga

References

• “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cantiga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cantiga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cantiga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã.?ti.?a/

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. song (musical composition with lyrics)

Descendants

• Galician: cántiga, cántega, cantiga
• Portuguese: cantiga
  • ? English: cantiga

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cantiga.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k??.?ti.??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /k??.?t??i.??/
• Hyphenation: can?ti?ga

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. folk song (song handed down by oral tradition)
2. cantiga (mediaeval monophonic song)
3. (by extension) any song
4. (figuratively, colloquial) nonsense; story

   Synonyms: léria, mentira

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