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:

     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.

Further reading

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