melodia

From Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /mə.luˈdi.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me.loˈdi.a/

melodia f (plural melodies)

1. melody

• melòdic

• “melodia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “melodia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “melodia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “melodia” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From melodio +‎ -a.

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• IPA^(key): [meloˈdia]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: me‧lo‧di‧a

melodia (accusative singular melodian, plural melodiaj, accusative plural melodiajn)

1. melodious, tuneful

From Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδῐ́ᾱ (melōidíā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelodiɑ/, [ˈme̞lo̞ˌdiɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): me‧lo‧di‧a

melodia

1. (music) melody, tune

• sävelmä

• IPA^(key): /me.loˈdi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: me‧lo‧dì‧a

melodia f (plural melodie)

1. (music) melody, tune

• melo-
• melodico
• melodioso

• Meliadò, diamole, lediamo

Late adoption of Ancient Greek μελῳδῐ́ᾱ (melōidíā) thus with ō for oe (seen in cōmoedia and tragoedia).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meˈloː.di.a/, [mɛˈɫ̪oːd̪iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈlo.di.a/, [meˈlɔːd̪iä]

melōdia f (genitive melōdiae); first declension

1. melody
2. pleasant song

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: melodia
• Old French: melodie
  • → Middle Dutch: melodie
    • Dutch: melodie
      • Afrikaans: melodie
• Italian: melodia
• Portuguese: melodia
• Spanish: melodía

• “melodia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• melodia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• melodia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Borrowed from Medieval Latin melōdia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā).

• IPA^(key): /mɛˈlɔ.dja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔdja
• Syllabification: me‧lo‧dia

melodia f (diminutive melodyjka)

1. (music) melody

• melodia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• melodia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin melōdia (“melody”), from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).

• Hyphenation: me‧lo‧di‧a

melodia f (plural melodias)

1. melody (sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase)
2. (figurative) harmony (pleasing arrangement of sounds)

   Synonyms: harmonia, sinfonia

   Antonyms: cacofonia, desafinação, dissonância

• melódia
• melodiar
• melódica
• melodicamente
• melódico