lonja

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

    Borrowed from Old Catalan lonja.

    Noun

    lonja f (plural *lonjas)

    1. (hapax legomenon) alternative form of logea

    Old Occitan

    Adjective

    lonja

    1. feminine singular of lonc

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈlonxa/ [ˈlõŋ.xa]
    • Rhymes: -onxa
    • Syllabification: lon‧ja

    Etymology 1

    Borrowed from French longe, feminine form of lonc (“long”), from Latin longus. Doublet of luenga.

    Noun

    lonja f (plural lonjas)

    1. slice, rasher
    2. beer belly

    Etymology 2

    Borrowed from Catalan llonja, from French loge. Compare Portuguese loja (“shop”). Doublet of lobby.

    Noun

    lonja f (plural lonjas)

    1. market (especially for fish)
      • 2020 April 8, “China intenta sin éxito cerrar los mercados de animales vivos”, in La Vanguardia‎[1]:
        Desde la epidemia del SARS en el 2003, que se originó en una de estas lonjas de la provincia de Cantón, China ha avanzado en el control y la detección de enfermedades infecciosas.
        Since the 2003 SARS epidemic, which originated in one of these fish markets in Canton province, China has made progress in the control and detection of infectious diseases.

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