médium
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin medium. The sense of "person who contacts the dead" is probably a semantic loan from English medium. Doublet of mi-.
Noun
médium m (plural médiums)
- (music) middle register
- (spiritualism, parapsychology) medium (a person who contacts the dead)
Derived terms
- médiumnique
- médiumnité
Further reading
- “médium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.d͡ʒi.ũ/, /ˈmɛ.d͡ʒjũ/
Quotations
For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:médium.
Derived terms
- mediunicamente
- mediúnico
- mediunidade
- mediunismo
Spanish
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