medietas

Latin

Etymology

Predominantly Late Latin. From medius +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈdi.e.taːs/, [mɛˈdi.ɛ.taːs]

Noun

medietās f (genitive medietātis); third declension

  1. the center, middle part of something, midpoint
  2. (transferred sense) half

Declension

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative medietās medietātēs
Genitive medietātis medietātum
Dative medietātī medietātibus
Accusative medietātem medietātēs
Ablative medietāte medietātibus
Vocative medietās medietātēs

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Old French: meitié, meitiet
  • Old Portuguese: meiadade, meetade
  • Romanian: jumătate
  • Romansh: mited, mità
  • Sardinian: meidade, meitate, metadi, midade
  • Sicilian: mità, mitati
  • Spanish: meitad, mitad

References
  • mĕdĭĕtas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • medietas in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • medietas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • mĕdĭĕtās in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 958/1
  • “medietās” on page 1,089 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “medietas”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 666–7
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